The Michigan Tradesman.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  17,1884. 

THE FINANCIAL  SITUATION.

Joseph O. Rutter in the Current.

II.

In alluding to the growing  contraction  of 
the circulating medium, the  intention  is  to 
touch it  entirely with  reference  to  the  na­
ture of the  effect  produced  upon  property 
values in the country,  by  continuously 
les­
sening the amount  of  money available  for 
daily uses, and not for the purpose of in any 
way considering the value to the people as a 
whole of  possessing a  large intrinsic wealth 
stored away for what we proverbially call  a 
“rainy day,” although it might  be here  said 
that for  such  purposes  a  metallic  reserve 
would be better in every way  than  a  paper 
currency which has  been  irredeemable 
in 
the past, and under contingencies  not  at all 
impossible to arise in the future, may  be  so 
again.

As against the effects  of  the  contraction 
which is under  consideration,  there  is  the 
added purchasing power which  is  given  to 
money  by  the  great  shrinkage  of  values 
which  attaches  to  all  kinde  of  property 
for a long period following a  collapse  or  a 
panic.  A collapse in values  usually  is  the 
outcome of  a panic, but  sometimes  it  pre- 
ceeds one, as, for instance,  the  decline  un­
der which we are  now 
laboring  began  in 
1881, and has  continued  steadily  until  this 
year,  when  its  accelerated  speed  brought 
about such enormous failures that an unnat­
ural frenzy  was caused and  a  panic  came. 
It is also,  generally  speaking,  a  fact  that 
after  a panic and  collapse,  money  is  very 
plentiful and interest rates low.  This comes 
mainly from the timidity of men in business 
and of those seeking permanent  investment 
It  is  the  occasion  of 
for their idle funds. 
constant  remark 
among  observing  men: 
“How  much more readily  as  a  rule,  prop­
erties will change owners  when  prices  are 
high and apparently going higher than when 
they are low, and with  a  lower  tendency” 
Both of these last conditions  operate  in the 
nature of an expansion of  the money  afloat 
among the people.  That this  apparent  ex­
pansion does not quickly make itself  felt in 
a revival of business, is because the business 
interests labor  at  such  times  under  what 
medical men call in human conditions  “sus­
pended animation.”

A very striking illustration of the manner 
and effect of the working of strong  contrac­
tion in the volume of money may be  had by 
contrasting 
the  conditions  existing  after 
the panic of 1857  and  that  of  1873.  The 
paper money—or, to  be  more  precise,  the 
bank note  circulation—in 1857 . was  issued 
under  the  authority  of  the  various  state 
legislators, and came from every  section  of 
the  union.

In  the  uncertainty  and  apprehension 
which prevailed everywhere in regard  to  it 
the people had little disposition to hoard  it. 
Money laid away was almost wholly in gold 
and silver.  When these notes came into the 
hands of  people who were in  debt,  the  ap­
prehension in men’s minds regarding it,oper­
ated as an  incentive to be  rid  of it.  There 
is always a natural  indisposition  to  submit 
to a brokerage or discounts, and so the most 
feasible thing to do would be  to  pay  debts 
with it  And the same line of reasoning  or 
feeling, whichever it may be called, induced 
its continuance in circulation; and so on and 
on it went, performing a most important and 
useful  function,  which  enabled  the  great 
mass of  people  to 
liquidate  their  debts. 
Notwithstanding the fact that there  was  no 
bankrupt law in force  then,  through  which 
both honest and dishonest debtors could pay 
their debts by process of  law,  or  rapacious 
creditors turn the United States  courts  into 
a mercantile, or diligent creditor’s collecting 
agency, the number of  insolvent debtors  at 
the opening of the civil war  was,  relatively 
speaking, much less than in 1877, four years 
after the  shock  of  1873,  and  after  (who 
would dare say  how  many?)  thousands  of 
people had a clear quittance of their monetary 
obligation under the authority  and  seal  of 
the United  States  government..  The  num­
ber of people who  lost  anything  of  conse­
quence by the  failure  of  the  state  banks, 
through their bank note circulation, was few 
and the total loss to  all  aggregated  a  sum 
sufficiently 
insignificant 
when compared with the  good  achieved  to 
the community as a whole by its continuance 
in constant circulation.

small,  certainly 

No allusion is now  made,  when  writing 
of losses to  the  community  by  state  bank 
circulation,  to  the  losses  which  accrued 
through the failure of  the  state  banks  of 
Illinois,  Indiana  and  Wisconsin,  in  what 
is  called  the  “stump-tail”  period.  These 
systems of banking  did not  owe  their  de­
cline to any of those causes which  produced 
the panic  of  1857.  Their  trouble  had  a 
different  origin. 
It  was  brought  about 
mainly by the  decline  in the  value  of  the 
state  bonds  pledged  for  the  ultimate  re­
demption  of  their  circulating  notes.  The 
war of the rebellion destroyed the  value  of 
all southern state bonds, most of which  had 
been in  high 
favor  for  investment;  and 
this 
banks. 
Had there  beep  no  war  the  objectionable 
features of these banks would no doubt have 
be® quickly remedied by the different legis­
latures.  A  system  of  forced  redemption 
would have speedily  checked over-issues of 
B<ttt  and kept them  within  bounds.  The

destroyed 

decline 

the 

want  of  such  a  system,  was  perhaps  the ] 
most conspicious  objection  to these  banks. 
Much unjust  and  needless  anathema  has 
rested on the head of the  “stump-tail”  sys­
It  has  often  been  confounded  with 
tem. 
other than real cause. 
It is not proposed to 
make any comparison between  the  circula­
tion of the state  banks,  such  as  formerly 
was furnished,  and the  present  system  of 
legal tender  and national  bank  notes,  the 
purpose being  rather  to  enforce  upon  the 
reader  the  advisability, indeed  the  actual 
neccessity, of devising some means by which 
hoarding,  or  at  least  excessive  hoarding 
of the bank note circulation shall  be  avoid­
ed, and to show the great  benefits  accruing 
to business,  and, in fact  every  interest,  by 
keeping the money of  a  country  in  move­
ment.  This is the  purpose  of  its  creation. 
Money  is  a  medium  for  the  exchange of 
properties.  When it ceases to  be  in  move­
ment it might as well not be,  as far  as  the 
community at large  is concerned.

Under  the  practices  which  govern  the 
transactions  of  mercantile business, 
in  a 
wholesale way, at the  present  time,  many 
evils are  growing.

The custom of inducing purchases,  by the 
dealers in the  interior  towns,  by  granting 
long credits  under  cover  of  “dating  bills 
ahead” against present  shipment  of  goods; 
and of keeping an army of  traveling  sales­
men, who, in to many  cases,  are  more  the 
agent of the buyer  than  of  the  seller,  and 
whose success is not infrequently dependent 
at the house,  upon  the  aggregrate  amount 
of sales more than on the profits  obtained— 
who are also in many  cases largely  the  ad­
visory “credit men” of the establishment, as 
well as its  salesmen—are  some  of  them. 
They are constant topics of  discussion,  and 
many plans are offered for the cure of them. 
Nothing practicable has been suggested, and 
the difficulty of securing co-operation  is  so 
great it is unlikely that any change will  be 
made  until  some  great  upheaval  forces  a 
different  mode  of  selling  goods  upon  the 
great distributing houses.  Another cause of 
disturbance in times of  unsettled  monetary 
conditions, which creates anxiety,  and  dan­
ger to merchants, is the  custom,  now  very 
general, of taking the  liberal  offers  of  dis­
count for cash, in  their  purchase  of  mer­
chandise or material rather than avail them­
selves of the long credit.  This throw  most 
houses upon the banks, or on the  street, for 
capital in the  form of  borrowed  money—a 
recourse which is sure to fail them when ac­
tual  stringency  or  timidity  induces  lenders 
to withdraw from the market.

Banks  differ  essentially  from  merchants 
in this particularly that bank 
liabilities are 
always due, and  may,  at  any  moment  be 
demanded.

This feature of  their  business often  com­
pels a  contraction when  the disposition and 
the  judgment, if undisturbed, of  the  bank 
officers would prompt a different course.  A 
prudent merchant will,  as  far  as  possible, 
guided  by  observation  and  experience,  so 
arrange his  purchases  and  payments  that 
in the usual  course  of  his  affairs,  the  re­
ceipts from his sales w ill, take  care  of  his 
payments.  This line of management cannot 
be the guide of the  banker,  for  the  reason 
already given.

In cities like New  York  a  fund  may  be 
kept loaned subject to a demand call,  which 
will  add  great  strength  to  reserve  power 
in times of trouble.  And in  a  good  degree 
the same policy can be followed in  Chicago. 
Eut few cities, however,  offer  facilities for 
these  loans;  and  the  policy  cannot  be 
made  on 
that  account  a  general  one. 
A  great  many  complaints  have  come 
from the seaboard  of  the  difficulty  experi­
enced by merchants in selling their paper, or 
borrowing money from  the  banks.  May it 
not be as  is  here  suggested,  that  to  much 
dependence 
is placed on the  profits  accru­
ing from discounting  their  purchases,  and 
too little upon obtaining a  better  profit  on 
their goods?—too much dependence  on bor­
rowed  money and too little  on  the  use  of 
their  credit in other directions?

Without inquiring  at  this time why  it  is 
so, anyone familiar with  the  matter  knows 
that one of the great drawbacks to prosperity 
now  is the high  rate of expenditure necces- 
sary  for  both  business  and  domestic  sus­
tenance.  Contrasted  with  the  compensa­
tion the expenditures  bring,  or the compen­
sations obtained in other  countries  than our 
own, the conclusion can  hardly  be  escaped 
that our countrymen have an evil to contend 
with which must be done away with  before 
we caD find our way to a  permanent and en­
during prosperity.  So  much  has  appeared 
in the public  newspaper  press  in  the  past 
few years regarding the enormous issues  of 
stocks in the various  corporations which the 
development of the country has  called  into 
existence—and  the  chief  of  which are our 
railroad corporations—stocks  which  in  the 
great majority  of cases are what  are known 
as “pure water,”  that is do, not represent  a 
dollar of money paid  in for them, but  upon 
which the agricultural producer and consumer 
is taxed by way of freightage, the same as ii; 
value  had  been actually paid,  and  for  the 
existence of which even the argument  “that 
the promoters of the schemes are entitled to 
a compensation for the  early  risks  taken,” 
has lost its force—if it ever had  any force— 
that it will  be unnecessary  to  make  any 
further allusion to it here.

SHEFFIELD.

The  Development  of  Her Cutlery  Manu­

facture.

A writer iu the English Illustrated Mag­
azine gives some interesting  facts  concern­
ing the development of the  Sheffield cutlery 
manufacture, from which we make extracts: 
The  cutlery  trade  is  the  industry  upon 
which  the  prosperity  of  Sheffield  was 
built, and which has been  most  constant  to 
the town. 
Indigenous to the soil,  jealously 
nursed and perfected  within  the  manor  of 
Hallamshire, the craft remains, so far as the 
the United Kingdom is concerned,  the  prac­
tical monopoly of Sheffield.

In the infancy of the cutlery  trade,  Shef­
field had more competitors in the home mar­
ket than it  has now, since, besides  London, 
which still makes a pretence of  rivalry,  the 
making  of  knives  was  carried on at Salis­
bury, at Woodstock, and at  Godaiming.

The manufacture of cutting instruments in
some form or other in  the  Sheffield  district 
probably dates back to the time  of  the  Ro­
man settlement, but the first historical refer­
ence to the existence of the iron trade is con­
tained in a grant made about the  middle  of 
the 12th century to the  monks of Kirkstead, 
for iron-working at Kimberworth, near Roth­
erham;  and  the  earliest  identification  of 
Sheffield with cutlery itself appears to be  in 
connection with a list of articles issued from 
the Privy Wardrobe to  the  Tower  in  1341, 
which contains the entry “cultellum de Shef- 
eld.”  Before 1400,  the “Shefeld  thwytel,” 
or whittle, was famous all the country  over, 
as Chaucer  testifies; the  “thwytel,”  which 
the  immortal  miller  “bare  in  his  hose,” 
probably  being  something  between  a dirk 
and the domestic table-knife.  Sheffield was 
at that time rather the center of a district en­
gaged in the production of cutlery  than  the 
sold place of  manufacture, the  area  includ­
ing Rotherham and Ecclesfield, and  extend­
ing as far as Chesterfield.

For several centuries London  remained  a 
formidable competitor with Sheffield  in fine 
cutlery, but the special reputation of the me­
tropolis in this respect  has  long  passed  en­
tirely ihto the surgical  instrument  trade,  in 
the more delicate sections of which  London 
is still supreme.  According to the historian 
Stow, “Richard Matehws, on  Fiete  Bridge, 
was the first Englishman who attained  per­
fection  in  making  fine  knives  and  knife 
hafts, and in the fifth year  of  Elizabetli  he 
obtained a prohibition against  all  strangers 
and others  from  bringing  any  knives  into 
England from beyond seas, which, until that 
time, were brought into this land by shippers 
lading from Flanders and other places.”

By far the  most  engrossing aspect  of the 
cutlery trade of Sheffield is its  history;  and 
its history is enthralling, not  because  it  re­
cords any remarkable vicissitudes of  the  in­
dustry as a craft, for its course has been sin­
gularly  even  and  natural;  not  because  of 
any  dramatic  developments  in  processes, 
for pratically cutlery is made at this moment 
in the same primitive way as when the clang 
of the smith’s hammer startled Lord Shrews­
bury’s deer;  but for the light which the rec­
ord throws upon the formation of  the  char­
acter, the habits of thought, and the econom­
ic theories of a body  of  artisans  who  have 
figured rather unfortunately in our industrial 
annals, and to whom full  justice  has  never 
quite been done.

Sheffield and trades unionisms  will proba­
bly always be bracketed together with a sin­
ister  suggestiveness.

It  was  not  until  the  latter  half  of the 
eighteenth century that the  trade  began  to 
shake off its self-imposed  fetters,  and  that, 
under the impetus of the discovery of silver- 
plating and the crucible steel process, of  the 
.manufacture  of  the  Britannia  metal,  the 
opening of the Don for  navigation,  and  the 
cultivation of the foreign trade, the prosper­
ity of the town began to  move  at  anything 
like a recent  rate.

By the early years of the present  century 
a new social system had taken shape,  and  a 
wide gulf was disclosed between manufactur­
ers and  artisans.  The  wealth  which  had 
brought  the  masters  social  dignity  also 
brought them more enlightened views of the 
interests of the town, and in 1814  they  very 
wisely obtained an act repealing the restrict­
ive clauses in their charter and throwing the 
trade  open  to  freemen  and  non-freemen 
alike.

Soft Wood  for Fuel.

From the Woodworker.

In portions of the country  where hickory, 
maple, and white oak abound,  little  use  is 
made of the soft woods  as  fuel.  Many  re­
gard them as nearly worthless for  that  pur­
pose. 
In the West, where wood for  fuel  is 
scarce, farmers have been  advised  to  plant 
hard-wood  trees  for  produciilg  fuel-wood. 
They have been told that hard wood is worth 
twice as much as soft for heating or cooking 
purposes, while the expense  of  cutting  and 
hauling is nearly  the  same.  Admitting  all 
these statements to  be  correct,  it  does  not 
follow that it is advisable to plant trees pro­
ducing hard wood if the object  is  to  obtain 
fuel in the shortest time possible.  The  ma­
ple,  hickory,  beech,  and white oaks are  of 
very slow growth.  Trees  set  out  in  one’s 
childhood will not be of very large size when 
the planter reaches old  age.  Most  of  these 
trees will not grow well except on soils  fav­
orable  to  them.  Willows,  poplars,  and

whitewood trees, however, will grow almost 
anywhere.  They are  easily  propogated  by 
cuttings as well as by sowing the seed.  Their 
growth is very rapid.  Especially is this  the 
case with the various kinds of willows.  They 
are among the first trees to put out leaves in 
the Spring, and they  continue  to  grow  till 
frosts appear in the Fall.  Good fuel can  be 
obtained from willow  trees  that  have  been 
planted out but five  or  six  years.  As  soon 
as the trunks are cut off sprouts will appear, 
which in the course of a few  years  will  be­
come stately trees.  The  wood  is  certainly 
not the best. 
It is, however, very  easily ob­
tained, and will prove better than most  per­
sons suppose.  The  trees  should  be  felled 
and the wood cut in  suitable  lengths  early 
enough in the season to  allow  it  to become 
thorougnly seasoned before the  approach  of 
winter. 
It will dry well if the bark remains 
on the wood.  Many think that it drys better 
if the sticks stand nearly upright than if they 
are corded up.  When dry, the wood should 
be protected from rain and  snow.

Cardinal Principles  of  Partnership.
In an accounting upon the dissolution of a 
partnership, there was a  dispute  as  to  the 
authority to incur expenses and as  to  inter­
est.  Both appealed, and the Supreme Court 
of Michigan, in deciding  the  case,  through 
Judge Sherwood, said:

1.  With  or  without  the  consent of  one 
partner, the other can expend any reasonable 
amount which he  may  deem  proper  in  the 
legitimate prosecution of the  co-partnership 
business.

2.  Unless it is  agreed  between  partners 
before  dissolution  and  final  settlement, 
neither is chargeable with interest on money 
he owes to his partner or to the firm, arising 
out of the business transactions of  the  firm. 
We  do  not mean to be understood to say that 
there may not be equitable circumstances ex­
isting between  partners  before  final settle­
ment which would  raise  an  implied  agree­
ment to pay interest.

3.  Interest can never be allowed upon an 
unsettled or unliquidated account without an 
express agreement, or  one  clearly  implied, 
and the case must be a strong  one  when  it 
is between partners to warrant its allowance 
without an express agreement to that  effect.

IRON  AND  STEEL  NAILS.

Difference  in  the  Processes  of  Manufac­

ture.

The reason why less  labor is employed in 
making steel nails than in making iron nails, 
is thus described by the New York Journal 
of Commerie:

The  reason  why  steel nails can be made 
with less labor than iron nails, is because the 
steel itself is made by the Bessemer process, 
which turns out immense quantities by  very 
simple machinery, while in the case  of  iron 
used for nails the process  is  by  hand,  ver- 
laborious and slow.  A Bessemer  converter 
can make from 120 to 250 tons  of  steel  per 
day, simply by the help of a few men  to  at 
tend machinery. 
It is an enlarged  foundry 
process, where metal is melted and operated 
upon chemically.  This metal is  poured out 
into ingots, and these ingots are heated  and 
rolled into steel nail-plate and cut  the  same 
as the iron  nail-plates.

But the case is different with the plates for 
iron nails.  First,  the  pig  iron  is put in  a 
puddling furnace,  a half-ton at  a  time,  and 
worked laboriously by two  men,  a  puddler 
and a helper, for an hour and  a  half.  Five 
“heats” constitute ordinarily  a  day’s  work, 
and the product is in the neighborhood  of  a 
ton or a ton and a quarter of  iron,  which  is 
heated and worked into nail plate  and cut to 
convenient lengths to be handled by the nail 
cutters.  Twenty puddlers and helpers might 
turn out twelve to fifteen tons of  iron  plate 
in a day, but the same  force  at  a Bessemer 
plant  might  turn  out  ten  to twenty times 
that quantity of steel.  A  Bessemer  “blow” 
can  be  made  in thirty to forty-five minutes 
and produce five to fifteen tons, according to 
the capacity of the converter, simply  by the 
labor of unskilled men to  fill  the converter 
with the necessary material and the labor of 
a skilled man to turn a little wheel to  regu­
late the blast, by which the impurities in the 
material are oxidized  and eliminated.  One 
Bessemer plant makes 700 tons  in  one  day 
with  two  converters  doing  their best,  and 
this with the work of a  small  squad  of  la­
borers. 
It would require the  labor of  from 
1,000 to 1,200  skilled  ironworkers  to  make 
the same quantily of puddled iron, and then 
it would be vastly inferior to  the  Bessemer 
steel.

F all  Novelties in Buttons.

There are many novelties  in  buttons  and 
no. a few of  them  are  very  tasteful.  All 
fancy dress buttons are smaller than last sea­
son.  There is quite a run on crochet buttons. 
Yery popular are all  the  steel  effects,  and 
the velvet and tinsel fronts are  having quite 
a good run.  A fine line of fancy  dress  but­
tons has fronts of pearl and cut steel.  They 
vary in price from $2.25 to $27 per gross.  A 
beautiful button, selling at $20 per gross, has 
a hard enameled  floral  center  framed with 
cut  steel  and  pearl  rings.  Dress buttons, 
having Rhine stone centers have proved to be 
a good  addition  to  a  button  stock.  Some 
choice chenille  buttons  are  in  the  market. 
They  are  bullet  shaped,  with and without 
steel  .heads.  Half  ball  dress  buttons,  the 
front being composed of a narrow silk braid, 
come in all colors and are very effective.  Jet 
buttons,  with  and  without  polished  steel 
points,  are  as  active  as  ever.  They  are 
shown in much smaller  sizes  than  last  sea­
son.

The  Origin  of the  Cigarette.

The origin and early history of  the  cigar­
ette is shrouded in  obscurity.  The  earliest 
trace that  can  be  found  of  it  is in Spain, 
where it is known that  over  a  century  ago 
cigarettes were made by rolling tobacco in a 
leaf obtained from the  inner  husk  of  corn. 
In Cuba, seventy years ago, tobacco rolled in 
thick straw paper was in common use.  Ten 
years later rice paper was called into requis­
ition and cigarettes came into use in  various 
parts  of  Europe,  notably  in  Turkey. 
In 
France they were  first  extensively  smoke** 
in 1843.  Six  years  ago  there was no sue 
word as cigarette to be found in  any Ameri­
can dictionary.

The  Curse  of the  Glove Trade.

Frequent complaints are heard among  the 
glove men regarding the abuse of  the  guar­
antee privilege.  There is apparantly  no  re­
dress.  When a lady returns a glove to a re­
tailer, claiming that it is imperfect, he is com­
pelled to take it back und make  restitution. 
The chances are nine in ten that the custom­
er injured the glove herself by yanking it on 
or by trying to squeeze into  it.  There  is  a 
large prize awaiting the man who will devise 
some system or method by  which  the  diffi­
culty can be obviated.

“What makes you  look so blue?” said Pat 
to Mike.  “Begorra, an’ you’d look blue, too, 
if you came home  and  found  your  wife in 
bed with  Spinal  Minningitis.  Be  Hevins! 
I’d uv shot the bloody Eyetalian I”

Gilbert, Hopkins & Co.,  general  dealers, 
“We  are  much  pleased  with 

Sherman: 
your paper  and can not do without  it.”

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Gilbert Hopkins & Co.  suceeed Sturtevant 

& Hopkins in general trade at Sherman.

John  Dubois  has  engaged  in  the  meat 

business at Fremont.

Even the humble pie-baker boasts that  he 

is a great tartist.  *

The actual labor of cutting the  nail  plate 
up into nails is  the  same  with  either  iron 
plate or steel plate.  The saving in  labor  is 
in the preliminary processes described.

There are at present two Bessemer  plants 
making steel nail plate.  One  is at Bellaire, 
O., and consists of two  four-ton  converters. 
Its first blow was made  April  28.  A  few 
men here did what 200 did before.  The sec­
ond Bessemer plant is at  Worcester,  Mass., 
and also consists of two four-ton  converters. 
The  first  blow  of  this  establishment  was 
made the 2nd of June.

A third plant is in process of erection, and 
will probably not be in operation until  some 
time  next  year;  it  will  have  two four-ton 
converters.  Here is a present and prospective 
capacity of six converters of four tons capac­
ity each, casting in less than an hour.  Hand 
labor in the  rolling-mills is becoming slowly 
driven to the wall.  Steel is supplanting iron 
gradually,  but the revolution has obtained a 
strong foothold  and  nothing  can  arrest  it. 
Steel nails can be  made  cheaper  than  iron 
nails and are much  more  serviceable.  The 
same will be true of other forms of  iron,  as 
progress is  made.

There  are  at  present  sixteen  Bessemer 
steel-rail  establishments 
the  United 
States, with a productive capacity of not  far 
from 2,000,000 tons ingots per  annum,  Un­
der  the  decline  in  railway  building  this 
enormous capacity has depressed prices.  The 
complaint made as to steel nails is that they 
are smoother than iron nails,  and  therefore 
have less grip on the surrounding  materials, 
but their use has not been  extensive  enough 
to say what they are worth compared to iron 
nails.  They will certainly last  longer,  and, 
being made with less labor and out of cheap­
er material, they can  crowd  iron  nails  out, 
just as steel rails have crowded iron rails out 
of the market.

in 

How  Needles  are  Made.

Needles pass through the hands of  eighty 
workmen.  There are five series of operations 
in the manufacture:  conversion  of  the  wire 
into needles in the rough, tempering and an­
nealing, polishing, softening  of the polished 
needles, and putting up into packages.  The 
conversion into needles in the  rough involv­
es twenty  operations,  the  principal  one  of 
these being gauging the wire,  cleaning, reel­
ing and cutting into pieces of a length  equal 
to two needles.  Sharpening  or  pointing  is 
done by means of grindstones.  By  the  aid 
of a leather thumbstall, the  workman  holds 
fifty wires  at  a  time.  The  latter becomes 
red hot by friction on the stone,  and  a  con­
stant stream of fine particles of the steel and 
stone is thrown off, which formerly  brought 
about phthisis in the workman after a  time, 
but  the  adoption  of  powerful ventilators 
has now remedied all that.  After  pointing, 
the wire is cut in two, the head is  flattened, 
and  it  is  then  annealed.  Then the eye  is 
punched  in  the  head  by  means of a  steel 
punch,  the  operation  being  performed  by 
children.  Other children “hole” the needles, 
that is, remove the particle of steel  detatch- 
ed by the punch.  After this, the  heads  are 
hollowed, sorted,  and,  when  necessary,  ce­

____________NO. 52.
mented.  Tempering  and  annealing  of  the 
raw  product  require  nine  operations,  but 
they are performed with lots of thirty pounds 
in weight, each containing more  than  three 
hundred thousand needles.  Polishing is the 
longest operation, although one  million  are 
polished at once.  It requires five operations, 
each of  which  is  repeated  seven  or  eight 
times.  The  needles  are  put  into  rolling 
cylinders along with small, hard  stones  and 
oil of colza.

A Successful Salesman.
From the N. Y. Dry Goods Bulletin.
' A discreet, honorable, 
industrious,  good- 
tempered,  persevering  and ' attentive  man, 
always supposing he thoroughly understands 
his business, will  invariable  succeed.  The 
writer  remembers  a  case  in  which  good 
temper, discretion, industry, happened  to be 
centered in one individual.  His duties  con­
sisted in  “drumming”  the  jobbers  for  or­
ders on woolen goods, such as cassimeres and 
worsted coatings, of which he carried various 
lines of samples  of  each.  On his route was 
an important firm upon whom he called  reg­
ularly every trip, but for five long  years  he 
had never  secured  a  single  line.  His  pa­
tience and.'perseverence were put to  a  very 
severe test every time, but the  climax  was 
enough to upset the equilibrium  of the best. 
One wet  day  he  called  upon  the  firm  in 
question, and seeing his man disengaged, he 
went for him at once,  and after a  few  pre- 
leminaries which  an  experienced  salesman 
knows how to  use  so  well,  he  opened  his 
wallet and  placed his  samples  temptingly 
before his man, ere he  was  able to say  nay. 
The merchant came forward, took the whole 
lot up and  threw them into the street.  With 
many, hot words at least would have  follow­
ed this grossly  insulting  behavior;  but  no, 
the salesman’s head was set straight  on  his 
shoulders.  He quietly picked every sample 
out of the mud, and, returning to  the  coun­
ter where his  case  lay,  politely  asked  the 
merchant’s  permission to rearrange matters, 
and regretted he had called so inopportunely. 
The man was so heartily ashamed of himself 
that he  gave  the  salesman  a  good  round 
order and  the merchant  eventually  became 
the other’s largest customer.

Miscellaneous Trade Notes.

Paper  money  is  said  to be ten per  cent, 

more valuable than coin in China.

Oleomargarine is outdone  at last, some in­
genious Irishman having invented a  method 
of making butter out of bog peat.

A Pittsburg concern makes maple sugar of 
plaster  paris,  rice, 
flour, molasses  and  a 
little coloring matter, without  any  sugar  at 
all.

The home consumption of copper  in  Eng­
land during the last quarter,  is  reported  to 
show an increase of 13,413,920  pounds  over 
the same period last year.

With its population of less  than  2,000,000 
Chili, has, during the past fifty years, poured 
into the markets of the  world  about  50,000 
tons of copper annually.

So great is  business  depression  in  Cuba 
that in Havana alone their  are 4,000  unten­
anted  houses,  and  in  some  places  in  the 
island, houses  are let free of  rent.

The total production of copper  mineral  of 
the miues of Lake Superior for the  first half 
of 1884 was about 20,000 tons,  against about 
17,000 tons for the same time last year.

Black walnut sawdust mixed with linseed 
gum is now moulded into flower  pieces  and 
other ornaments for  furniture.  These  arti­
ficial decorations are  said to be much  more 
durable than carved  work.

Grecian  mythology  tells  us  that  the  in­
ventor of the saw once  found  the  jaw-bone 
of a snake, and used it to cut through a piece 
of wood, then imitated it bj  jagging an  iron 
plate, and thus made a  saw.

Prices on whalebone have descended about 
20 per cent/  The spring boom  did  not,  ap­
parently, last very long. 
In the meantime a 
great deal of French horn bone, a  substitute 
for whalebone, is being  sold.

Many people buy tea  from  Chinese  deal­
ers on account of its being packed in  quaint 
little boxes.  The package  is no  proof  that 
the article  is genuine, as  the  wrappers  are 
made and the tea is packed by a New  York 
firm on Water  street.

New firms, just starting in business, often 
fall  into  the  error  of  supposing  that they 
must offer extra  inducements  to  customers 
by underselling their  neighboring  competit­
ors or by cutting  the price of  some  specific 
article of general need.  Such a  practice  in­
variably militates against the  firm so  doing, 
and  brings  them  enmity  from  the  entire 
trade. 

The sands  used  in  the  manufacture  of 
mirrors are now used by a Paris company to 
make white bricks and  stones.  These  can 
be made into any desired  form.  The  sand 
is first strongly pressed by hydraulic  power 
and then baked in ovens at a very high tem­
perature.  The brick  is  chemically  speak­
ing, almost pure silica. 
It is  not injured by 
frosts,  rain, etc., is very  light—the  specific 
gravity being only 1.50 to 1.85 of clay bricks. 
The white color is very beautiful  and  regu­
lar.  In fact the bricks are an artificial white 
stone.

,

Geo. H. Remington, who  has  for  several 
years past been identified with the blast fur­
nace at Bangor, has engaged  in the  grocery 
business at that place.  Shields,  Bulkley & 
Lemon furnished the  stock.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

B.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

the  trade  would  alone compensate for  any 
outlay of time and money;  and  the  encour­
agement such an  association  would  offer  to 
the  committee  having  in  charge  the  pro­
posed  legislation  at  Lansing  this  winter 
would be in itself a sufficient excuse for  the 
undertaking.  Organization  is  the  order  of 
the day, and the druggists  should  hasten  to 
take rank in the front of the procession.

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  89.

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  17,  1884.

XV

S.  Horn,  the  Small Man of the Grocery 

POST  A.

Organized, at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884. 

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Richard Warner. 
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Official Organ—The  Michigan  Tradesman. 
Committee  on  Elections—Wm.  B.  Edmunds, 
chairman;  D.  S.  Haugh,  Wm.  G.  Hawkins, 
Wallace Franklin and J. N. Bradford. 
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in 
each month.

ONE  YEAR  OLD.

With the present issue, The T radesman 
completes the first year of its existence,  and 
enters  upon  the  threshold of  a second  vol­
ume. 
It is needless to say that  its  publica­
tion was  begun  with  many misgivings, and 
that  its  career  has  been  fraught  with  the 
usual  drawbacks  incident  to  every journal­
istic  enterprise.  Before  six  months  had 
elapsed, however, it was plainly discernable 
that the venture  was a  success, and  now  at 
the  conclusion  of  a  twelvemonth,  it  is a 
pleasure  to  be  able  to  announce  that  the 
paper  is  a  permanency, having been  estab­
lished  on  a  firm  financial  basis, and being 
the recipient of a substantial and constantly 
increasing patronage.  As  is  the  case with 
all  innovations,  the  paper  was  at  first  re­
garded by some with indifference or absolute 
antagonism;  but it is not saying too much to 
Affirm that  as the  months  have  gone by, its 
friends  have  grown  warmer and more  con­
stant, and that those who at first were skep­
tical as to its success have been won over as 
friends.  Such results speak louder than any 
wordy  commendation  possibly  can  of  the 
merits of the paper, and  of  the  influence  it 
exerts in the right direction.  Stimulated by 
the  success  of  the  past  anti the  promise of 
the  future,  we  shall  aim  to  make  The 
Tradesman  better  next  year  than  it  has 
been the past, and in this we  shall have the 
experience  of  the  past  to serve as  a  guide 
and a warning.

The  same  general  features  that  have 
served  to  give  interest to the  paper  in  the 
past will be retained, together with such ad­
ditional features as  the  times  may  seem  to 
demand.  The  same  freedom of  expression 
that has characterized the editorial policy of 
the  paper  will  serve  to  mark it  in  the  fu­
ture, and  trade  frauds  of  every description 
will be given merited attention.  Looking to 
the retail trade for support and co-operation, 
we are allowed a degree of latitude unknown 
to the “ house organ,” and shall continue  to 
exercise  that  privilege  to the  advantage  of 
the retail trade. 
In conclusion, the  patrons 
of the paper will  accept  our  hearty thanks 
for their  patronage  in the past, and  we  be­
speak from them the same cordial support in 
the future.

Thirty-four signatures have been obtained 
to  the  paper  calling a  meeting  of  the  job­
bing trade for the purpose of  discussing the 
advisability  of  forming  a  Mercantile  Ex­
change.  The  meeting  will  be  held  at  the 
place  designated  Wednesday  evening,  at 
which  time  it  will  undoubtedly  be  deter­
mined  that  the  sentiment  of  the  jobbing 
trade is overwhelmingly in  favor of the pro­
posed organization.

The  following  clipping, from  the Bloom 
ingdale  correspondence of  the Allegan  Ga­
zette, emphasizes the  protest voiced by The 
T radesm an earlier in the season relative to 
the organization of a cheese factory at every 
-cross roads:
Our largest cheese factory has 1,400 boxes 
of cheese on hand and accumulating.  Some 
of our wise ones think that fifteen or twenty 
new cheese factories  in  southwestern Mich­
igan have overdone the cheese business.

The meeting of the druggists  of Michigan 
held at Detroit last week under the auspices 
of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
was suggestive of the great  interest  felt in 
the subject  at  issue  and  of  the  pressure 
which will be brought  to  bear on the  next 
Legislature  to  secure  the enactment  of  a 
pharmacy bill.  The character of the officers 
selected is a sure  indication that  the  cam­
paign at Lansing will  be  spirited  and  ag­
gressive, and  that the  results  accomplished 
will be all that the members of the Associa­
tion have anticipated.

Detroit hospitality has  been  many  times 
tested and never found wanting.  And  the 
entertainment accorded the druggists  of the 
State last week serves to strengthen the rep­
utation heretofore possessed  by the City of 
the  Straits  in  this  respect  With  every 
facility for the comfort  and  convenience of 
guests, coupled with the prevailing  spirit of 
welcome and hospitality, it is comparatively 
easy for the stranger  to  imagine  that  he is 
in the hands of friends,  and  that  he is not 
required to exercise any  concern  regarding 
his own welfare.

The  present  occasion is  an  excellent  op­
portunity for the druggists of  Grand Rapids 
to  effect  a  local  organization.  There  are 
about forty retail establishments in the city, 
nearly  every  proprietor  of  which  would 
enter  into  the  work  of  organization  with 
zeal  arid  determination.  The  good  results 
which  would  follow  from  concerted  action 
on matters  affecting  the general welfare  of

Trade.

Walter Scott Horn was  born at Weisport, 
Pa., April 28,1856, and lived there  with his 
parents until seven years of  age,  when  the 
family  removed  to  Lauyer’s  Station,  Pa., 
where they remained five years.  They then 
went to  Springtown, Pa.,  where  they  lived 
for two years, when they made a final change 
to Bethlehem, Pa., where  they  still  reside. 
Here Walter received the most of his educa­
tion, and in 1872 apprenticed himself to learn 
the trade of coach painter, serving a faithful 
three years’ apprenticeship,  and  continuing 
to work at the trade about three  years long­
er.  Finding that the business of his selection 
did not agree with him, so far as health was 
concerned, he came to Michigan,  going  first 
to Muskegon.  There he entered the employ 
of Andrew Wierengo, who was then conduct­
ing a retail grocery business on Pine  street, 
near  the  location  of  his present wholesale 
store; and during the year and a  half  Horn 
was  in Wierengo’s  employ,  he  became  ac­
quainted with and wedded his  present wife, 
who was a sister  of  the  proprietor,  and  at 
that time occupied the  position  of  cashier. 
Severing his connection  with  Wierengo,  he 
entered the employ of L. C.  Dearborn,  boot 
and  shoe  dealer,  with  whom he remained 
less than a  year.  He  then  purchased  the 
stock and business of his brother-in-law, who 
engaged in the jobbing trade, and carried  on 
the business on his own account about a year 
and a half, when  he  sold  out,  and  entered 
Wierengo’s  employ  as  traveling  and  local 
salesman*.  He  continued  in  that capacity 
for  about two years, when he resigned to ac­
cept a similar position tendered him by Fox, 
Musselman  & Loveridge.  He was assigned 
as his territory the C. &  W.  M.,  north  and 
south, and available  towns on the D., G.  H. 
& M., west,  with frequent  drives  to  inland 
towns.  He sees his trade every  two weeks.
Personally, Mr. Horn  is  one  of  the  best 
natured boys on the road.  Small in stature, 
and by no means handsome in feature,  he is 
nevertheless a favorite, both among the boys 
and the trade, and is  quietly  building  up  a 
reputation for effective work that  would  do 
credit to many a traveler,  older  in point  of 
years and service on  the  road.  His  exper­
ience in the grocery business has been of the 
practical kind, which enables him to talk un- 
derstandingly  of  the  line  he  handles, and 
this fact, coupled with his ability as a  sales­
man,  renders  him  a  valuable man  for the 
house he has the honor to  represent.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—The market is well supplied with 
home-grown  fruit,  which  sells  at  $1.50 
bbl.  for cooking  and  $1.75@$2 for  choice 
eating.
Butter—Creamery is very scarce, in conse­
quence of  which a really choice article read­
ily  commands  25c.  Dairy  is  also  very 
scarce, when it comes  to the better  grades, 
and finds ready sale at 17@18.
Butterine—Has come into the  market for 
the winter campaign, and will  undoubtedly 
tend to keep the  price of good  butter  down 
to living figures.  Solid  packed  dairy com­
mands 15@16c, and creamery 22c.  No rolls 
will be put on the  market until the  advent 
of cold weather.

Beets—40c 1$ bu.
Berries—Blackberries  are  about  played 
out. Whortleberries are yet in the market in 
limited quantities at $2.25  ^   bu.

bunch.

bailed.

new crop.

Cabbages—$4@$5 ^  100 
Celery—25c 
Cheese—Full cream is slow sale at 9c, and 
old cheese is held at 7j^@8c.
Clover Seed—Choice medium $5.25 
bu.
and mammoth at $5.50 
bu.
Cider—Sweet, 8@12c  ^  gal.
Eggs—Scarce  at 15@16c.
Egg Plants—$1.25  doz.
Grapes—California $5 per  case of  40 lbs. 
lb. Con­

Kelly Island, and Delawares, 10c 
cords and Isabellas, 4@6c.
Green Corn—10c ^  doz. ears.
Hops—Brewers are paying 25c for  choice 
Honey—Choice new, 15c.
Hay—$12@$14 for new, and$13@$15  for 
Maple Sugar—None moving.
Melons—Watermelons, $1 
grown.  Musk, 50c per doz.
Onions—New, 50c  ^  bu.
Peaches—$3.50@$4.50 
Pears—California  $4.  ^   case  of  about 
225.  Bartlett, $2 per bu.
Plumbs—California $2.25 
crate of about 
225.  Green gages and blue,  $2@$3 
Potatoes—The  market  is  well  supplied 
with home-grown, which  find  slow  sale at 
25@35c 
Poultry—Fowls 15@16c.  Spring chickens, 
19c@20c.
Red Peppers—$1.25 
Sweet  Potatoes—Jersey, $4.50  ^   bbl. 
Baltimore, $3.50 ^  bbl.
Turnips—40c<$* bu.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.55 ^  
Tomatoes—Acme 30c per bu.

doz.for home

bu.

bu.

bu.

bu.

grains a n d milling  products. 

Lancaster,  74c.

Wheat—White, Fulse, and  Clawson  72c 
Com—60c ^  bu.
Oats—White 32@35c ^  bu.
Rye—52@54c  bu.
Barley—Brewers  pay  $1.25 
new.
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  $5.90 
sacks  and $6.05 in wood.  Straight, $4.80 ^  
bbl. in sacks and $5.05 in  wood.

cwt.  for 
bbl.

Meal—Bolted, $1.40 ^  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 ^  ton.  Bran 
$13  per  ton.  Ships,  $14  ^   ton.  Mid 
dlings, $17 
ton.

ton.  Corn  and  Oats, $23 

The Grand Rapids Seed Co. state  that the 
prices quoted in their  advertisement  on  the 
fifth  page  can  be  shaded  as follows:  Me­
dium  clover  seed, $5.25;  Mammoth, $5.50; 
Timothy and Rye, same as quoted.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as follows: 

AUGERS AND B IT S.

Ives’, old  style...........................................dis  50
N. H. C. Co..................................................dis  55
Douglass’ .......:.......................................... dis  50
Pierces’ .......................................................dis  50
Snell’s..........................................................dis  50
Cook’s  .......................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine...................................flis  25
Jennings’, imitation...............................;jlis40&10

Spring......................................................... dis  25

BALANCES.

Railroad........................................................$ 15 00
Garden....................  
net 33 00

 

 

 

BARROW S.

BELLS.

Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow.......................................................... dis 
60
15
Call............................................................dis 
Gong 
................................................... dis 
20
Door, Sargent......................................... dis 
55

BO LTS.

Stove.....................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list...................................dis 
75
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis  50&15
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................... dis 
50
Wrought Barrel Bolts...........................dis 
55
,  50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs........ .......... dis 
Cast Square Spring................................dis 
55
Cast Chain...............................................dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob...............dis  55&10
Wrought Square.................................... dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush.............................dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
% Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door................................................dis  50&10

BRACES.

Barber.....................................................dis$  40
Backus.......................................... 
  dis 
50
Spofford................................................dis 
50
Am. Ball...................................................dis  net
Well, plain.....................................................$  400
Well, swivel................................................. 
4 50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

60
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis 
60
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin.............................. dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............. dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............. dis  60&  5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped...................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table........................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind...........................dis 
60
Wrought Brass....................................... dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s................... 
dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s....................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.....................................dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2Vs, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00

CA PS.

Ely’s 1-10................................................. per m $ 65
Hick’s C. F............................................  
60
G .D ............... 
35
 
Musket................................................... 
60

 

CA TRIDG ES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list 
Rim Fire, United  States.......................... dis 
Central Fire................................................dis 

50
50
Já

C H IS E L S.

Socket Firmer........................................dis
Socket Framing.....................................dis
Socket Cornef........................................dis
Socket Slicks..................... 
dis
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer...................dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers.................... dis
Cold.........................................................net

 

Curry, Lawrence’s................................dis
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis

COMBS.

65&10
65&10
65&10
65&10
40
20

33)4
25

COCKS.

Brass,  Backing’s........................................  40&10
Bibb’s ..........................................................  49&10
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.......................................................... 
60

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  ft  37
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  39

CO PPER .

D R IL L S.

Morse’s Bit  Stock..................................dis 
Taper and Straight Shank.....................dis 
Morse’s Taper  So5nk..........................dis 

35
20
30

ELBOW S.

Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 10
Corrugated..............................................dis  20&10
Adjustable.............................................. dis  40&10

E X PA N SIV E B IT S.

20
25

F IL E S .

dis 
dis 

Clair’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00. 
Ives’, 1, $18 00;  2, $24 00;  3, $30 00. 
50
American File Association List..........dis 
50
Disston’s ..................................................dis 
50
New American.......................................dis 
Nicholson’s.............................................. dis 
50
Heller’s .................................................... dis 
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................ dis  33)4
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
18

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
12 
14 
15 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .............dis 

13 
GAUGES.

50

HAMMERS.

15
Maydole & Co.’s.......................................dis 
Kip’s .........................................................dis 
25
Yerke»&  Plumb’s ..................................dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel..........30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10

HA NG ERS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction........................dis 
60
Kidder, wood tra.k................................dis 
40

H IN G ES.

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3................................dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12  in.  4)4  14
and ¡longer..............................................  
3)4
Screw Hook and Eye,  )4  ...................net  10)4
Screw Hook and Eye %........................net 
8)4
Screw Hook and Eye  M....................... net 
7)4
7)4
Screw Hook and Eye,  %......................net 
Strap and  T............................................dis 60&10

HO LLO W   W AR E.

Stamped Tin Ware....................................   60&10
JapannedcTin  Ware.................................   20&10
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 
25

H O ES.

Grub  1 ..............................................$11 00, dis40
Grub  2................................................  11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........$2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings—   2 50, dis 60 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings.........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
60
25, dis
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis
60
..dis
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain.........dis
...:d
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ................. :d
4 )
..dis
50
Hemacite...............................................dis

LOCKS—DOOR.

. list dis
60
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s ........................ dis  60
Branford’s ...................................................dis  60
Norwalk’s.............. 
dis  60

LEV ELS.

M ILLS.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’ s ...................dis  65

Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ...................................dis  45
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables dis  45
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ............. dis  45
Coffee,  Enterprise....................................... dis  25

MATTOCKS.

Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye......................................$15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

N A ILS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2  35
25
8dftnd9dadv................................................ 
6dand7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................  1 50
3d fine advance.............................................  3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1 75
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Advance 10c from above prices. 

i  lOd 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

8d  6d  4d
1)4

2)4 

2 

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................dis  15
Sciota Bench.................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...................... dis  15
Bench, first quality..............................  
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and

dis 20

Fry, Acme............................................... dis 40&10
Common, polished................................. dis 
60
Dripping....................................................$  
ft  s

PLANES.

PANS.

RIVETS.

Iron and Tinned.....................................dis 
Copper Rivets and Burs........................dis 

40
40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10)4 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs yto $  ft extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne................ 5  75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.........".  7  75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...............16 90
Sisal, )4 In. and  larger.............................. $   9)4
Manilla.............................................................  1514
Steel and  Iron............................................dis  50
Try and Bevels..................................  
dis  50
Mitre  ...........................................................dis  20
__ 
Com. Smooth.  Com.
Nos. 10 to 14....................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................  4  20 
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4  40 
No. 27..............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

$3 20
3 20
3 20
3 20
3 40
3 60
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

SHEET IRON.

„ 

In casks of 600 lbs, $   ft............................ 
In smaller quansities, $1  ft.....................  

6)4
7

TINNER’S SOLDER.

No. 1,  Refined..........................................  
Market  Half-and-half...............................  
Strictly  Half-and-half...............................  

13 00
15 00
16

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...............................  8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal....................................   6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal...............................  8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal.......  .....................   8 50
IX, 
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal...............................  10 50
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................  12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.............................   14 50
20x28, Charcoal...............................  18 00
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.............................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal....................... ;  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75 

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse’s...... .dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ .............................  
60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................... 60
Mouse,  choker...............................................20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion....................I.......... $1 26$ doz
Bright Market.............................................dis  60
Annealed Market........................................dis  60
Coppered Market........................................dis  55
Extra Bailing.............................................. dis  55
Tinned  Market........................................... kis  40
Tinned Broom..................................  
$ f t  09
Tinned Mattress.............................................. $  ft 8)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel....................................dis 37)4
Tinned Spring Steel.......................................... dis 37)4
Plain Fence................................................$  ft  3y3
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper............................................... new  list net
Brass.................................................. new  list net

WIRE GOODS.

Bright................................................ dis 60&10&10
Screw Eyes........................................dis 60&10&10
Hook’s ...............................................dis  60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes.....................dis  60&10&10

WrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s  Genuine......................................dis  50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural,  wrought...........dis  65
Coe’s Pat.,  malleable................................ dis  70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern................................... dis  60&10
Screws....................................... >......... 
70
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers, American................................. 
33)4

FOSTER,
STEVENS

-WHOLESALE—

HARDWARE!

10  and  13  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

Detroit  and  Chicago  prices  duplicated  al­
ways, and freights in our favor and shipments 
more prompt make Grand Rapids the cheapest 
market-

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

AG ENTS  FOR  THE

Riverside Steel Nail

The Steel  Nail  is  the  Coming  Nail.  All 
dealers who have once had  them  will  have 
no  other.  Why?  They  are  stronger;  they 
are lighter; they will  not  break;  carpenters 
insist  on  having  them; 
they  are  worth 
twenty-five  per  cent,  more  than  the  Iron 
nail; 

they cost but a trifle more.

We are receiving  three  car  loads  a  week 
and  are  still  behind  with  our  orders.  We 
have  promise  of  more  frequent  shipments 
and  now  hope  to  keep  up  on  our  orders 
for 

sample  order  or  ask 

Send 

for 

price.

M OLLASSES GATES.

Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring...................d is  25

Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................ , dis  50

M AULS.

O IL E R S .

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent....................... dis  55
Zinc, with brass b o tto m ........................ dis  50
Brass or  Copper................... 
dis  40
fteaper........ ......................  per gross, $12 net
50
OlmBtead’s 

“..*..........

We are carrying to-day  as  large  a  stock, 
and filling orders as complete, as  any  house 
in Michigan.

Foster,St8venssCo.

JOHN  CAULFIELD

IMPORTER

¿ ± is r jD >

Wholesale  Grocer,

35,  87,  80  Canal  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS

MICHIGAN.

I desire  to  call  the  attention  of  the  trade  to  the  fact  that  in the territory tributary 
to  Grand  Rapids,  I  cannot  and  will  not be  undersold.  There  is  no  conceivable reason 
why  Chicago,  Detroit,  New  York  or Boston  should  be  able to place  groceries in Grand 
I  certainly  buy  my  goods  as  cheap  as  jobbers  located  elsewhere. 
Rapids’  territory. 
Many  large  houses  still  purchase  extensive  blocks  of goods  as  in  war  times. 
I  pur­
chase  as  the  wants  of  my  trade  demand,  and  am,  therefore,  in  the  existing  condition 
of  trade,  better  able  to  sell  goods  at  the  lowest  prices.  The  difference  in the percent­
age  of  co^J;  to  sell  goods  in  Chicago,  Detroit,  Boston  and  New  York, and  what it costs 
me  would  in  itself  make  a  handsome  profit.  I  am  anxious  to  obtain  as  large  a  share 
as  possible  of  the  near-by  and  home  trade;  and  shall  be  pleased  to  furnish  samples 
and  quotations.  Mail  orders  are  especially  solicited  and  lowest market prices on  every 
order  received  is  guaranteed. 

.

Teas.

The  present  is  a  good  time  to  place  your  orders  for  Japan  Teas.  1  have  several 
invoices in  transit,  including basket fired and sun  dried,  my  own  importations.  Please 
send  for samples before purchasing elsewhere,  or  order  a  sample  chest,  subject  to  your 
approval. 
I wish to have it understood  that  all  tea  orders  will  be  filled  subject  to  ap­
proval;  and if not  satisfactory,  after  examination,  the  goods  can  be  returned  andlwill 
stand all expenses incurred, including outward  freight.

Coffees and Spices.

I have already called attention in the columns of Th e Tradesm an to my new brands 
of Roasted Coffees.  The marked and deserved success of this department is the very best 
evidence of the merit of the goods.  I  devote  much  time  and  attention to the selections 
for  roasting  and  blending, and  guarantee  better  values  than  are  those  furnished by 
Eastern parties, or no sale. 

'

Home Roasted Rio.................... .. - .....................................................  “
16
Prime
Select Maracaibo.................. 
18
Imperial Roasted (a blended Coffee).........................  
18
O. G. Roasted Java.................................................................................   33
3®
Mandehling 
Java and Mocha.........................  
38

.........................  

“ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I exercise great care in selection  and  grinding  of  spices, and  can  especially  recom­

mend my two brands of

j, O- Strictly Pur© G-round. 
j.  o. Pur©  Ground,

Also my

j. O. Best Bnsllsb. Mustard..

Can put up ground goods at any price to suit the trade, and will guarantee  values.

Canned Goods.

I have a large and well assorted stock of Canned  Goods.  My Blaek  Diamond  brand 
It is not a bad time to lay in a  stock  of  the  new 

of California Salmon is especially fine. 
pack of peaches.

I have en route a car load of Country Standards,  all  Yellows, which I will  sell  very 

eheap.

Imported  Groceries.

My  stock  includes  French  and  Turkish  Prunes* Patias  Currants, Loose Muscatels, 
London Layer, Valencia and Ondara Valencia Layer Raisins, Citron, Prunells, Figs, Olive 
Oils, French Sardines, French Mustard, Crosse & Blackwell’s Pickles, Sicily Canary Seed 
Italian Maccaroni, Condensed Milk, etc.

Soap and Starch.

I  keep  all  the  well  known  and  popular brands of soaps at lowest prices, including 
Babbitt’s,  Kirk’s  standard  brands,  Fairbanks’,  Schultz’s  (Fatherland),  Simon’s  Con­
densed, etc. 

I am agent for Gilbert’s Starch Factories, Des Moines and Buffalo.  Their goods have 
always been regarded as equal to any of the crack Eastern manufacturers, and have always 
I am now placing my second car-load within thirty 
held their own in the Eastern States. 
days, and have yet to hear the first complaint with  regard  to  quality of the goods. 
I  am 
able to compete with Western manufacturers in price, and  guarantee  quality equal to any 
in the market.

,

Cigars and  Tobaccos.

This has always been prominent in my trade, and has required much of my attention. 
I have the exclusive control in this State of some of the best brands of Cigars, Cigarettes, 
Fine Cut, Plug  and  Smoking  Tobaccos, including  in  Plugs  Senour & Gage’s Celebrated 
Red Star and Old Five Cent Time;  Horseshoe and D. & D.;  McAlpin’s Green Shield  and 
Chocolate Cream;  Nobby Spun Roll and Ne Plus Ultra Black Spun Roll. 
In  Fine  Cuts. 
Fountain, Old Congress, Good Luck, Good and Sweet, American Queen, Blaze Away, and 
Hairlifter. 
In Smokings, Rob Roy,, Uncle Sam, Mountain Rose, and Gold  Flake  Cabinet. 
In  Cigars, Glaccum’s  Standard, Delumos, After  Lunch,  Our  Winners,  Little  Hatchets. 
Golden Spike, Josephus, Commercial and Magnolias, the champion cheap cigar.

Yours Truly,

JO H N   o a u l f :

J D .

Brugg & flftebicineg
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

_

... 

Rapids.

amazoo. 

President—Geo. W. Crouter.Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal­
Second Vice-President—B.  D.  Northrup,  Lan-
Thir<f'Vice-Presideiit—Frank  Wurzburg,  Gr’d 
Secretary—Jacob Sesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W. 
Fincher. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday. 
October 13,1885.

„

THE  PHARMACISTS.

State  Association.

The  Second  Annual  Convention 

the
The second annual  meeting  of the Michi­
gan State  Pharmaceutical  Association  be­
gan  a  three days’  session  at  Merrill  Hall, 
Detroit,  Tuesday afternoon, nearly 300 drug­
gists  being  in  attendance.  The  hall  was 
appropriately draped and decorated, the rear 
portion being given over entirely to exhibits 
from leading local and foreign  drug  supply 
houses, the whole presenting  a  very  attrac­
tive appearance.  The  meeting  was  called 
to order by the President,  Frank  Wells, of 
Lansing, and  the  convention  opened  with 
prayer by Rev. R. W. Clark.  Mayor  Grum- 
mond was  expected  to  give the  address of 
welcome, but as  he  was  absent  from  the 
city, that duty devolved upon Hon. J. Logan 
Chipman, Judge of the Superior Court.  He 
regretted the absence of the Mayor, and  the 
consequent  inability  to  extend  the  official 
hospitalities of the  city, but  stated  that the 
true Michigan hospitality was  in  his heart, 
and in the heart of  every  resident  member 
of the Association.  He closed with a merit­
ed tribute to the profession of pharmacy.

Prof. A. B.  Prescott,  of  Ann  Arbor,  re­
sponded for  the Association.  He said the 
Association wTere glad to meet in a  city  like 
Detroit and to receive so hearty a  welcome. 
Of the business of pharmacy, he said  it was 
one of great responsibility, and  it was to aid 
in improving their  qualifications for it  that 
the members had met in  convention.  Phar­
macy, he said, was a profession distinct from 
others and must be  cultivated  by  methods 
purely  its own.

President Wells followed with his  annual 
address,  a  document  of some*  length,  but 
pertinent in thought and suggestive  in idea, 
which will appear in T he Tradesman next 
week.

A list of 251  applicants  for  membership 
was presented and referred to the Executive 
Committee jfor action.

The  evening  session  was  very  brief, the 
only business done beipg to act favorably on 
the applications for membership.  This  was 
promptly followed by  adjournment,  to give 
an opportunity  to  the  members  to  accept 
evening invitations.

A portion of the members  attended  a re­
ception at Frederick Stearns’  residence, cor­
ner  of  Lafayette  and  Trumbull  avenues. 
Another portion were the  guests of  Charles 
Wright at a reception given  in honor of  the 
the State Pharmaceutical  Association at his 
home, 24 Joy street.  Both affairs were duly 
enjoyed.

Wednesday morning’s session opened with 
the  reception  of  applications  from  seven 
new members.  The  question  was  asked, 
“Could women join the  Association?”  The 
answer “Yes” was received  with  applause. 
The annual  reports  of the  Secretary  and 
Treasurer were referred  to  the  Executive 
Committee,  who  reported that  they  were 
correct.

The Committee on Legislation  reported a 
bill for the protection of  the people  against 
ignorant  and incompetent  druggists, to  be 
presented to the next Legislature.  The re­
mainder of the morning session was occupied 
in hearing papers read on subjects of  inter­
est  to the Association.

The afternoon was  given  over  wholly to 
pleasure, the principal feature  being’a boat 
ride on Detroit River  and  Lake  St.  Clair. 
A visit was also paid to the immense  labor­
atory of Parke, Davis & Co., where  refresh­
ments were served.

The evening session was short, in order to 
allow the  members  to  attend  the  banquet 
tendered them by the druggists  of  Detroit 
It was given at the Michigan Exchange, and 
attended by nearly 400  persons.  The menu 
cards were of cork, and of  a very  novel de­
sign.  A large orchestra discoursed music at 
frequent intervals.  Toasts were  responded 
to as follows:

Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Associa­

tion-Frank Wells, Lansing.

The National Retail Association—John J. 

Dodds, Detroit

Detroit

hardt, Chicago.«

The City of  Detroit—Frederick  Stearns, 

The Pharmaceutical  Press—G. P.  Engle- 

B.

The Detroit  Pharmaceutical  Society—A. 
Stevens, Detroit
The Retail Drug  Trade—A.  Bassett,  De­

Our University—A.  S. Parker, Detroit.
The ladies—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
The Science of Pharmacy—G.  S.  Purois, 

troit.

Detroit.

Dr. J. J. Mulhem  acted as toastmaster.
At a late hour the festivities  ceased with 

the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.”

Thursday morning, the oppressive heat of. 
the previous days of the session disappeared, 
and the morning meeting was comparatively 
comfortable.  The first business  of  the ses­
sion was the election of officers  for  the en­
suing year.  A half dozen names  were pro­
posed for president,  and  the choice  fell to 
Geo. W. Crouter, of  Charlevoix.  A  nomi­
nating committee of five members,  appoint­
ed to present a list of candidates  for  the re­
maining  positions,  reported as  following:

First Vice-President, Geo. M.  McDonald, of 
Kalamazoo;  Second  Vice-President,  B. D. 
Northrup,  Lansing;  Third  Vice-President, 
Frank Wurzburg, Grand Rapids;  Secretary, 
Jacob Jesson,  Muskegon;  Treasurer,  Wm. 
Dupont, Detroit;  Executive  Committee, H. 
J. Brown, A.  B.  Stevens,  Geo.  Gundrum, 
W. H. Keeler, F. W. Fincher.  The nomina­
tions were confirmed.

The salary of the Secretary was increased 

to $200 per annum.

The Committee of  Resolutions  on  Trade 
Interests  reported  the  following,  which 
were unanimously adopted:

Resolved—That we condemn  the  solicit­
ing by the manufacturers of patent and non­
secret preparations of  orders  from  dealers 
not druggists.

Resolved—That the members of  this As­
sociation  will  not  favor  such  jobbing  or 
manufacturing firms as  make  a  practice of 
selling goods to consumers or  physicians.

Resolved—That we consider the Campion 
plan the best system yet devised for the pro­
tection of retail druggists  in  the  matter of 
cutting prices.

The following  were  elected  delegates to 
the American  Protective  Association:  A.
B. Stevens, Detroit, A. B. Prescott, Ann Ar­
bor,  A. B. Lyon,  Detroit,  Geo. McDonald, 
Kalamazoo, and H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor, as 
principals,  and  Geo.  Gundrum,  Ionia,  O. 
Eberback, Detroit, H. G  Coleman,  Kalama­
zoo, Frank Ingles, Detroit, and  James Ver- 
ner, Detroit, as alternates.

Delegates were  elected  to  the  National 
Retail Drug Association, as  follows:  Jacob 
Jesson, Muskegon, F. W. R. Perry,  Detroit,
A.  Bassett,  Detroit,  Isaac  Watts,  Grand 
Rapids, and  J. H.  Kellogg,  Bay  City,  as 
principals, and J. B. Watson,  Coopersville,
C. G. Stone,  Detroit,  C.  A.  Fellows,  Big 
Rapids, B. D. Northrup,  Lansing  and H. D. 
Harvey, Bangor, as alternates.

The following  resolution  was  presented 
by ex-President Frank  Wells,  of  Lansing, 
and adopted by a rising vote,  supplemented 
with cheers:

Resolved—That the right royal  welcome 
extended to this Association by  our friends, 
the wholesale and retail druggists and  man­
ufacturers of Detroit, is beyond  all  praise. 
Nothing to  promote  our  social  enjoyment 
seems to have been forgotten, and we tender 
to these gentlemen, one  and  all,  our  most 
sincere thanks.

The Committee on Incorporation  was  in­
structed to secure  the  incorporation  of the 
Association under the laws of the  State.

The President  announced  the  following 
committees:  Trade Interests,  John  Dodds, 
H. G. Coleman, S. E. Parkill; Pharmacy and 
Queries,  A.  B. Prescott,  A. B. Lyons,  O. 
Eberbach.

Frank Wells  moved that the  next  meet­
ing of the Association be held at Detroit the 
second Tuesday  of  October,  1885.  After 
considerable  discussion  pro  and con,  the 
motion was adopted.  Mr. Wells then  mov­
ed  that the  Executive  Committee  be  in­
structed to bear all the expense  of  the next 
meeting, which was voted down  by the  De­
troit contingent.

Mr. Wells nominated  as  local  secretary, 
the present  incumbent,  A.  W. Allen,  who 
was unanimously re-elected.

The discussion relative  to the  pharmacy 
bill was concluded, and the bill was adopted 
as amended.

At the afternoon session, President  Crou­
ter  appointed the  following  special  Com­
mittee on Legislation, to look  after  the in­
terests of the pharmacy bill  at  Lansing the 
coming  session  of  the  Legislature:  I.  J. 
Levy, H. Dodds, Wm. B.  Wilson  and  Geo,
L.  Davis.  The convention then  adjourned.
During the boat ride  on  the river  Wed­
nesday  afternoon,  two  gentlemen  took  a 
straw vote  on presidential  preferences,  re­
sulting as follows:  Blaine,  213; Cleveland 
71;  Jt. John, 11; Butler, 10.

VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Oil Cassia.
Declined—Gum  opium,  glycerine,  pepper­

mint.

City.

Springs.

Haven. 

»

Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
R.  H. Woodin, Sparta.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
M. V. Wilson, Sand  Lake.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
Calvin  Durkee, Lakeview.
Boyes & Son, Dowling.
F. E. Deming,  Freeport.
Mrs. Mary E. Snell, Wayland.
R.  W. Finch,  Sumner.
R. S. Hubbard, Boyne Falls.
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
C. E. Herrick, Fenwick.
R. G. Smith, Wayland.
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.
Gaylord & Pipp, Pierson.
H. T. M. Treglown, Lowell.
S. S. Waldo, Albion.
Ayer Bros., Howard City.
A  B. Sunderland,  Lowell.
E. Bradford, Sparta.
D. W.  Shattuck, Wayland.
N. deVries,  Jamestown.
Mr. Denton, of Robbie & Denton, Howard 
John Cole, Fremont.
J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
A. J. Provin,  Cedar Springs.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Mr. Wagar, of Wagar  &  Callahan,  Cedar 
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
C. Deming, Dutton.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
Mr.Dylcstra, of Botteja &Dykstra, Grand 
Lon Pelton, Morley.
W. J. Woodruff, Carey’s Siding.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
G. E. Wood, Cadillac.
Cutler & Savage Lumber Co., Stanton.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
Jacob Bartz, North Dorr.
C. L. Gray, of C. L. Gray & Co., Evart. 
J.E. Thurkow, Morley.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
W. S. Root, Talmadge.
Smedley Bros., Bauer.
A. Engberts, Beaver Dam.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Mr. Cody, Cody & Moore, Lake City.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Geo. Weitz, Caledonia.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
E. P. Barnard,  buyer  New  Era  Lumber 
J. Omler,  Wright.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
A. M. Church, Sparta.
Geo. F. Cook, Grove.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland.
A. J. Underhill, Pentwater.
Mr. Walbrink and I. J. Quick, I. J. Quick 
C. G. Carroll, Byron Center.
John Glupker, Zutphen.
B. Wynhoff, Holland.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
L. M. Wolf, of A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudson- 
Geo. W. Scott, Coopersville.
O.  W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
J. DeJongh, Grand Haven.
M. V. Wilson, Sand  Lake.
O. W. Kibby, Bellaire.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Trent.
Kellogg & Potter, Jenisonville.
Henry Strope, Morley.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
Purdy A  Hastings, Sparta.
J. G. Johnson, Traverse City.
A. E. Smith, Cadillac.
F. L. Blake, Irving.
C. Stocking, Grattan.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
S.  T. Colson, Alaska.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
Mr. Spring, Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
G.  P. Stark, Cascade.
R. B. McCullough, Berlin.
Scoville & McAuley, Edgerton.

& Co., Allendale.

Co., New Era.

ville.

A C ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................ft  9  &  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ®  35
Carbc lie............................................  
50
Citric..................... 
55
Muriatic 18 deg............................... 
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  ©  12
Oxalic...............................................   1454©  15
3  ©  4
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @  15
Tannic...............................................  15  ©  17

 

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.................................$  a   15  ©  18
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
14
Aqual6degor  3f............................ 
6  @  7
7  @  8
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
tj  50 
40 
2 50 
50

Copaiba............................................
Fir......................................................
Peru...................................................
Tolu...................................................

BALSAMS.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........  
Cinchona,  yellow..................... ... 
Elm,  select.......................................  
Elm, ground, pure..........................  
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................  
Sassafras, of root............................ 
W Ud Cherry, select....................... 
Bayberry  powdered................................ 
Hemlock powdered........................  
W ahoo.............................................. 
Soap  ground............................... 

 

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
18
30
12

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 80c)............... 
©  75
6  @  7
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash......................................1 CO  @1  10

13

27
375!
9
13
15
14

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...  
Lgowood, 54s 
do 
............... 
Logwood, 54s 
do 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid, Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

Arnica............................................. 
Chamomile,  Roman.................... 
Chamomile,  German.....................  

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes........................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)...............
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......
Ammoniac....................................
Arabic, extra  select....................
Arabic, powdered  select...........
Arabic, 1st picked.......................
Arabic,2d  picked.........................
Arabic,c3d picked....................... .
Arabic, sifted sorts.....................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c).
Benzoin.........................................
Camphor......................................
Catechu. Is (54 14c, )4s 16c).......
Euphorbium powdered.............
Galbanum strained.
Gamboge........................................... 
Gudiac, prime (Powd  45c).............. 
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
Mastic................................................ 
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00)............... 
Shellac, Campbell’s ...........................   " 
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac, native................................. 
Shellac bleached.............................. 
Tragacanth.............................  
 

 
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

28©

10  ©  11
25
25
io 
18 
50 
30 
60 
60 
50 
40 
35 
30 
30 
55@60 
21©  24 
13
35©  40 
80
90® 1 00
35
20
10
40
4 25
30
26
24
30
30 

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
25
Peppermint................................... 
Rue..................................................................... 40
Spearmint...........................  
24
Sweet Majoram................................................35
Tanzy.................................................................25
Thyme...............................................................30
Wormwood.......................................................25

 

 

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
Citrate.............................................. 
Phosphate........................................ 

6 40
20
7
80
65

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  12  @  11
6
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & 54 s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  ©  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
10
Belledonna............................. 
 
35
Foxglove........................................... 
30
Henbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red.............  ........................... 
2 35

 

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s  Sour Mash Whisky.2  00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................1  75  @2 00
Whisky, other brands..............  
1  10  @1 50
Gin, Old Tom.....................................1 35  @1 75
Gin,  Holland.........................,..........2 00  ©3 50
Brandy...............................................1  75  @6 50
Catawba  Wines................................ 1  25  @2 00
Port Wines........................................ 1  35  @2 50

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............ 
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__  
Calcined............................................  

23
37
2 25
70

A.  W. Allen, the efficient local  secretary 

was presented with a handsome silver water 
set by the exhibitors.

Grand Rapids was not as well represented 
at the convention as it was hoped she would 
be, the olny druggists attending being Frank 
Wurzburg, Isaac Watts, Theo.  M.  Kemink, 
Will L. White, with E. R. Wilson,  and  Vic­
tor H. Middleton, with Peck  Bros.  A local 
association, as proposed elsewhere in to-day’s 
paper, would undoubtedly do much to arouse 
the  latent  energy  of  the  trade  and  bring 
about a larger turnout another year.

w

lx. 

* *
HERCULES,

TH E   GREAT  STUM P  A ND  ROCK

A X O nSZ L A T O R .

Strongest &  Safest  Explosive  Known  to the Arts.
Farm ers, practice economy and  clear 
your land of stum ps and boulders.  Main 
Office, H ercules  Powder Company, No. 
40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.
L. S. HILL & CO., ACTS. 

GUNS, AMMUNITION  &  PISHING  TACKLE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

@ 1954

VISITING  SALESMEN. 

Representatives of  the  following  houses 

B.  Crawford,  Gilbert  starch  works, 

have been in town since our last issue:
Des Moines and Buffalo.
Co.,  Chicago.

T. 
C.  A.  Banker,  Anglo-American  Packing 

An  Elegant  Line  of Goods.
From the Kalamazoo Gazette, Sept. 11

Mr. T. P. S. Hampson, traveling agent for 
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., GiandRapids, has 
been in town for a day or two with the finest 
line of goods in his line that was ever  open­
ed  up  for  inspection  in  Kalamazoo.  His 
goods  consist of  elaborate  dressing  cases, 
odor  cases,  cigar  cases,  infant  cases  with 
music  boxes,  game  sets, hand  and  glove 
cases, jewel boxes, ladies’ French plate glass 
mirrors for painting  and  decorating,  and a 
general druggists’ sundry  line.  His  stock 
comprises over seven thousand  articles.

McBride  Bros,  purchased  a  beautiful 
dressing case  with  natural  bird  feathers, 
mother of pearl and siver  trimmings on the 
top, music box on inside  playing opera airs, 
etc.  Everyone who  has  seen  the  case pro­
nounces it a  beauty.  McBride  Bros,  also 
made other purchases of fine goods.

Mr. Chas. P. Ochsner, successor to Sp^yde 
&  Cookson,  made  purchases  of  dressing, 
odor and other  cases. 

Roberts & Hillhouse purchased a full line 
of French plate hand glasses for hand paint­
ing  and  decorating,  as  well  as  other 
goods.

Colman & Son were  heavy  purchasers of 
fine goods, and will make a fine display this 
fall.

Messrs. Brown & Birge  purchased a large 

»

line of dressing cases and sundries.

This stock of goods was shown at Milwau­
kee at the national  convention  of  the Phar­
maceutical  Association  and carried off  the 
blue ribbon, as it did also  at the  State Con­
vention held at Madison.

Mr. Hampson,  when  expatiating  on  the 
excellence of his wares,  becomes very  ani­
mated, and he has a right to  be,  for it  is a 
line of goods that he and his  house need not 
be ashamed of.

O IL S.

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  45  @  50
45
Amber, rectified.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
2 00
Bay $   oz.........................................  
50
Bergamont.......................................  
2 00
Castor..............................................   18 
2 00
Croton...............................................  
Cajeput............................................  
75
1  10
Cassia............................. 
 
40
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
Citronella........................................ 
85
Cloves................................................ 
1 25
Cubebs, P. &  W ............................  
6 00
1 60
Erigeron........................................... 
2 00
Fireweed........................................... 
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
75
40
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries........ ....................... 
2 00
Lavender flowers, French.............  
2 01
Lavender garden 
.............  
100
90
Lavender spike 
.............  
170
Lemon,new crop........................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s....*’............. 
1  75
80
Lemongrass.................................. 
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
1 25
50
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
Pennyroyal...................................... 
2 00
Peppermint,  white......................... 
3 15
9  75
Rose %) oz......................................... 
65
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
4  50
andal Wood,  W. 1............................ 
7 00
Sassafras..................•....................... 
60
Tansy................................................ 
4 50
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  ©  12
Wintergreen................................. 
Z 25
4 50
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
1 00
Savin.................................................  
Wormseed.......................................  
2 50
Cod Liver, filtered.......... 
. $  gal 
1 90
3 50
Cod Liver, best...............................  
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
6 00
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1 20
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
2 5Q
Salad................................................   65  ©  67
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................$  oz 
9 75

 

 

 

 

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate.................................ft 
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c)..... 
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
Prussiate yellow..................... 

14
35
1 25

20
30

ROOTS.

* 

15

27
17
35
12
18

Alkanet.......................... ............... 
Althea, cut..............................  
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s ............. 
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and 54s_ 
Blood (Powd 18c)....................  
 
Calamus,  peeled..................... 
38
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered................... 
23
10
Gentian (Powd  14o)......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13  ©  14
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached.............  
20
Golden Seal (Powd 40c).........  
Hellebore, white, powdered..........   
22
Ipecac, Rio, powdered............. .. 
110
Jalap, powdered.................... 
Licorice,  select (Powd 1254). 
Licorice, extra select............. 
Pink,true........................................ 
35
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110  ©1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes................. 
2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers................  
2 25
Serpentaria................................. . 
50
Seneka...................... . 
65
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras........... 
40

375
12
15

35

î»5

HAZELTINE,

Sarsaparilla,  Mexican....................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...............
Valerian, English (Powd 30e)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery...............................................
Coriander,  D e st  English................
F ennel..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 354)................ .

Mustard, white( Black 10c). 
Quince..................................
Worm,  Levant.

18
10
25
20

13
5  © 6
354@ 4

11  @ 120 002 25

12
15
354©4  @ 454
8  © 9
554© 6
8
1 00
754© 8
14

SPONGES.

 

50

l 20

2 25

♦  5
12

12
70

8
2
60

@110

do 
do 

do 
do 
do 
do 

2 29
1 50
27
12

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
do 
Nassau 
........  
2 00
........ 
Velvet Extra do 
1 l 6
Extra Yellow do 
........ 
85
65
Grass 
........  
do 
Hard head, for slate use................  
75
Yellow Reef, 
................. 
1  40

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ... 
do 

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) $  gal 
 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s............  
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........ 
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........... 
30
Annatto 1 ft rolls.................  
Blue  Soluble.........................  
50
20
Bay  Rum, imported, best.................... 
2 75
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
Alum.........................................  ¡¡jift  254@  35$
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  @  4
Annatto, prime....................  
32
454@  -  5
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  @  7
Balm Gilead  Buds...............  
40
Beans,  Tonka.........................................  
Beans, Vanilla................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................  
l  60
45
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)............ 
754©  9
Blue V itriol.................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).. 
12
185
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African.... 
18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... 
20
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ... 
18
Carmine,  No. 40 ...............................  
4 00
Cassia Buds........................  
Calomel.  American.............  
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
Chalk, precipitate English..........  
Chalk,  red  fingers__ *....... 
Chalk, white lump............... 
Chloroform,  Squibb’s.................... 
1 60
Colocynth  apples................. 
1 60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 76
Chloral 
cryst... 
Chloral 
1 90
Chloral 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform.................................... 1 00  ©1 10
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............  45  @  50
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   45  ©  50
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  @  22
Cochineal......................................... 
30
Cocoa  Butter.
Copperas (by bbl  lc).
Corrosive I
Sublimate.
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list____
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  @  40
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
Creasote............................................  
50
Cudbear, prime.......................*__  
24
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
24
Dextrine........................................... 
12
Dover’s  Powders................................... 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................  
50
45
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
Ether Squibb’s........................................ 
1 10
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............  
8
254©  3
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
50
Etner, sulphuric, TJ. S.  P ............... 
69
Flake white...................................... 
14
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
25
Gelatine,  Cooper’s .................  
90
Gelatine. French  ............................  45  ©  70
Glassware, flint, 76 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  ©  17
Glue,white.......................................   17  @  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   19  @  22
Hops  Vis and )is.............................. 
25©  40
Iodoform $   oz................................. 
35
Indigo...............................................   85  @1  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  23  ©  25
Iodine,  resublimed...............................  
2 10
Isinglass,  American.............................. 
1 50
Japonica........................................... 
9
London  Purple..................... .........   10  @  15
Lead, acetate....................................  
15
9
Lime, chloride, 04s 2s 10c & 54s 11c) 
Lupuline.................................................  
1 00
Lycopodium....................................  
50
Mace.................................................  
60
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
1214©  13
Manna, S.  F ............................................  
55
Mercury............................................  
Morphia, sulph., P. & W ........ $  oz  3 25@3 50
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........  
Moss, Iceland............................ ^  ft 
10
Moss,  Irish.......................................  
12
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........  
18
Nutgalls............................................  
20
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
70
Nux  Vomica....................................  
10
Ointment. Mercurial, 5$d............... 
40
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
18
Pepsin......................................................  
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia............................................  
6  ©  7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W ........... ft oz  1  10©I 15
Quinine,  German............................1 00  @1  05
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................. 
28
Strychnia, cryst...................................... 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  ©  82
Red Precipitate....................... ^ ft 
so
Saffron, American..........................  
35
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
2
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst............... 
9
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
33
Sal Soda...........................................  
2  ©  254
2 00
Salicin......................................................  
6 75
Santonin.................................................  
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................  
4
Spermaceti....................................... 
25
414©  5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__  
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
17
.........................  
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
9
Soap, 
do  do 
11
.........................  
Soap, Mazzini..................................  
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  ©  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   28  @  32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
30
Sulphur, flour.................................  
3)4©  4
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
Tartar Emetic..................................  
60
2 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, 54 gal. cans 
doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin...........  
140
pints in tin............... 
85
Tar, 
Turpentine,  Venice................ $ f t  
25
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
60
7  ©  8
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

3©  314

do 
do 

1 50

1 75

@ 

 

O ILS.

Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder..................................................50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 35
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine...........................................30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.............................................    .22
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter bleached................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
85
Whale, winter......................................  80 
75
Lard, extra...........................................  64 
65
Lard, No.  1...........................................  55 
56
Linseed, pure raw..............................  53 
Linseed, boiled..................................   60 
63
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   90 
95
Spirits Turpentine..............................  37 
45

V A RN ISH ES.

No. 1 Turp Coach.................................. 1 10@1 20
Extra  Turp............................................ 1 60@1 70
Coach  Body............................................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1 00@110
Extra Turp  Damar............................... 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.
75
Lb
9
10
10
11
2© 3 
2© 3 
2© 3 
254© 3 
254© 3 
13@16 
55@57 
16@17 
554 
554 @70 
@90 
110 
1 40

P A IN TS.
Bbl
Boralumine, White  bulk!
5 fts 
Boralumine, 
“ 
............
Boralumine,Tints bulk.  V50 off..
Boralumine  “ 
5 fts. J ............
Red Venetian............................  154
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   154
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  154
Putty, commercial..................  254
Putty, strictly pure.................     254
Vermilion,prime American..
Vermilion, English.................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish.......  .
Whiting,  Gilders  ......................
White, Paris American...........
Whiting  Paris English cliff.,

Wholesale

Druggists !

42 and  44  Ottawa  Street  and 89, 91, 93  and 

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Fils, dlls, M s s ,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR
Wolf, Patton & Co., a n d J ohn L. W hit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Paint  and  V arnish 

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Eapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H air, Shoe a n d H orse Brushes.

Drusiists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness is  conceded to be  one  of  the  largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers of 
many articles ourselves  and  can  offer  Fine 
Solid Back Hair Brushes,  French  and Eng- 
glish Tooth and Nail  Brushes  at  attractive 
prices.  Our line of Holiday  Goods  for the 
approaching season will be more full and el­
egant than ever  before,  and  we  desire our 
customers  to  delay  their  fall  purchasers 
of those articles until they have seen our el­
egant line, as shows by our accredited repre­
sentative who is now  preparing  for  his  an­
nual exhibition of those  goods.

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

We give our  special  and  personal  atten­
tion  to  the  selection  of  choice  goods  for 
the drug  trade only, and trust we merit the 
high praise accorded us for so  satisfactorily 
supplying the wants of our  customers  with 
Pure Goods in this  department.  W q . con­
trol  and  are  the  only  authorized  agents 
for the sale of the celebrated

Withers Dade & Co's

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
other  known  b e a n d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  guarantee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

,1

Which continues to have  so  many  favorites 
among druggists who have sold  these  goods 
for a very long time.g^Buy our

M

i s

.

We  call  your  attention  to  the  adjoining 
list of  market  quotations  which  we  aim  to 
make  as  complete  and  perfect  as  possible. 
For special quantities and for  quotations  on 
such articles as do not appear on the list such 
as Patent Medicines, etc,, we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

HAZELTINB, FEBKfilS & CO

MICHIGAN COHEMLTRAVELSRS’ ASSOCIA’N.
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

Thirty Tears.

LIST OF OFFICERS:

President—R a n s o m  W. H a w l e y , of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—C h a s . E. S n e d e k e r , Detroit; 
L. W. A t k i n s , Grand Rapids;  I. N. A l e x a n ­
d e r , Lansing;  U. S . L o r d , Kalamazoo; H . E. 
M e e k e r , Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  M e r e d i t h , 
Detroit. 
Board  of Trustees,  For One  Year—J .   C . P o n ­
t i u s , Chairman, S . A. M u n g e r ,  H .  K . W h i t e  
For Two  Years—D. M o r r i s ,  A. W.  C u l v e r .

_ ■

RETAILERS,

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

LAVINE

F. J.  DETTENTHALER,
OYSTERS,  FISH

WHOLESALE

-AND-

CANNED  GOODS.

1 1 7   Monroe  Bt.,  G-rand.  Rapids.

This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a 
larger profit than any in the  Market,  and  is 
put up in handsome and attractive  packages 
with picture cards with each case.  We guar­
antee  it  to  be  the  best  Washing  Powder 
made and solicit a trial order.  See prices in 
Price-List.

HAWINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

JONES  A  CO.,

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

KEMIRTK.’S

a

Red Bark Bitters"

-----AND----

is Mantel

78  West Bridge  Street,

I  will quote you until further notice as follows:  E xtra Selects, 38;  Selects, 33; 

Standards, 25 ; Favorites, 22.

We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
W e  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virgidia  and  Tennessee  Foamits, 
Alm onds, Brazils. Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  W alnuts  and  Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

Dandy 
Nuts
Gigars 
Fruit
PUTNAM  £  BROOKS.
FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

We are  agents  for  Gordon’s 
celebrated  W ag Jaws,  Olym­
pian, D. 3T., and many other well- 
known brands and carry a full line 
of his goods at factory prices.
We handle Oranges, Lemons, 
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates,  Etc.,  in 
large quantities from first-hands  and 
are  headquarters  for  everything  in 
our line.

REMOVAL!

Coal,  Wood,  Lime,  Cement,

n Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

-A..  33.  K N O  W  L S O N .

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

A M B O Y   C H E E S E -

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
P. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,
Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs,

-----WHOLESALE  D EALERS  IN -----

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STEEET,

GRAND RAPIDS.  -  MIORIG-ANT.

PECK BROS.,

W h o l e s a l e   D r u g g i s t s

4

A Complete Stock of all that pertains to the wants of the Retail Druggist.

We  Employ  No  Travelers.  Send  for  Prices.

.  129  and  131  Monroe Street,.

G-rand Rapids  — 

-  Midi.

SPRING  &  COMPANY

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN—

PYAJSTCTSr  -A.3ST3D

STAPLE DRY  GOODS
CARPETS.

MATTINGS,

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE  & BEO., Proprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
IEntered  at  the  Postoffke  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class M atter.1

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  17,  1884.

NO  MONEY  IN SMALL  STORES.  .

Rent.

Many of Them are Run Merely  to Pay  the 

From the Detroit News.

“Hello!  Have you sold out?”  inquired a 
News  reporter of  a  friend  who  had  been 
keeping a cigar stand  and  a  confectionery 
store in connection with which he  also  had 
icecream  parlors.

I’m tired of working for  nothing.
I intend to rent  a cottage and go  to work at 
my trade.”

“Yes. 

“I thought  you  were  doing  a  nice  little 
think 

In fact, 1 was inclined  to 

business. 
you were making money.”

“Well, I made money  at the  business  in 
years past, but the trade  is cut up now  and 
there is ne money  in  it.  Take  the  cigar 
trade.  Every  drug  store  sells  cigars,  you 
can find  them in  all  groceries,  and  I  was 
going to say all dry goods stores, but I know 
for a fact that half  a  dozen  places  of  that 
kind on this  avenue  sell  them. 
Ice cream 
parlors are as thick as mushrooms during the 
warm season, and how they  all  manage  to 
even make their rent  is what surprises  me. 
There  are too  many small  stores  for all to 
do well.”

From my observation  they seem to be  in­
creasing rather  than  diminishing.  1  know 
of one or two young men  in  the  cigar  and 
tobacco business who are  doing  very  well, 
and have  succeeded  beyond  their  expecta­
tions.”
“Oh, 

there  are  exceptions,  of  course. 
There’s a young fellow over there who does a 
rushing business.  You can go into his store 
any evening and in his back room  you  will 
find half a dozen  tables  where  young  men 
are seated playing Cards  for  cigars. 
I have 
said  young  men,  but  you  will  also  find 
middle-aged married men seated there—men 
who like to play cards simply for the pleasure 
there is in it, and  of  course  when  there  is 
something at stake the  game  is  intensified. 
Men  who are  seldom  or  never seen in  sa­
loons  [.will  go  there  and  play  cards  the 
whole evening for  cigars.  He  has  a  good 
Tun of that kind of custom,  and  is  making 
money.”

“How  do you account for the increase  in 
number of these places if there is no  money 
in the business?”

“That’s a very easy matter.  Some people 
are  satisfied  if  they  make  their  rent,  and 
that's just  what  three-fourths  of  them  are 
doing.  A man with  a little capital  rents  a 
small store and  starts  in.  He  manages  to 
live overhead,  or  as often  happens,  on  the 
floor  with the store.  His wife  or one of his 
children, if he  has  any,  will  attend  to  it, 
and he goes off to work at his trade. 
If  the 
receipts of the ‘store’ pay their rent, why he 
is so much ahead. 
If  they fall  behind that 
a little, he is nothing put,  because he would 
have to pay rent anyhow.  This is  the  way 
they  manage 
business 
going, and many people are led to think they 
are  getting rich.  For my part I’m  through 
with it.”

to  keep 

the 

On investigation the reporter  found  that 
his friend’s view on the matter  were  pretty 
nearly  correct  Competiton  has  become 
so strong that those who go into the business 
to make a living have  to  work  very  hard, 
and the days are gone by in  this  city  when 
anyone can start a small  store  and  a  bank 
account at the same time.

Had to Get  Rack  Home Again.

“Yes, I’ve been down South,” said a dusty 
tanned passenger,  with  quite  a  variety  of 
baggage lying on the seat  in  front  of  him 
“and it’s mighty glad I am to get back again 
The South is  no  place  for  my  business.” 
And what might your  business  be?”  “sell­
ing  clotbes-ringers,  fluters  and  sad-irons. 
The colored women do all the  washing  and 
ironing in the South, and of course I canvass­
ed among  them.  They’re  a  queer  lot  of 
citizens, they are. 
In one house  in  Memp­
his 1 wanted to sell  a  women a  fluter,  and 
when she  said: 
‘Go way wid yo’ saw-sidge 
machine—we’s no Dutch trash  in  dis  hyah 
house.’ 
colored  women  some  sad-irons,  when  she 
said:  “We’s got no  use  for  such  weep’ns 
sah;  I’m a pec,ble women, I am,  an’  don’t 
go gaddin’ roun’ nights wid  common  folks 
n’ a  as  fo’  my  husban’ he nebber  would 
be boddahed wid one  o’  dem  a  ’irons—he 
prefahs a razah,’  Even in the back street of 
the colored district of St. Louis  I was carry 
ing a  wringer  along  one  day  when  about 
four  dozen  pickaninies  ran  after  me  and 
cried  out:  “Mistah1 mistah,  pleathe  play 
us a tune.’ 
the 
North.

In  Vicksburg  I  was  showiug 

In two hours Ilit  out  for 

A donkey is a tough creature.  It never suf­

fers from a softening of the brayin.’

A  burglar  alarm clock went off the other 
night  without arousing the family.  It went 
off with the burgular.

A lady advertises for  sale,  in  a  country 
newspaper, one baboon, three tabby cats and 
a parrot.  She  states  that  having  married 
she has  no further use for them.

He had an auburn-haired girl,  and  prom­
ised to take her out riding.  She met him at 
the door when he drove up, and he  exclaim­
ed,  “Hello 1  ready?”  She  misunderstood 
him, and they don’t speak now.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

COLE  &  STONE,

Manufacturers  and Jobbers  of

Gents’  Fine  Shirts.

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to . Close 

Buyers  in  our  Line.

Address,

Marshall 

- 

Mich.

SEEDS

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

-----AT-----

—AT THE—

SRRD  STORE,

91  Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

W. T. LAMOREAOI, A p t
EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER

J E W E L E R

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

WHOT.-F1HAT.-Fi  GROCERS,
Niroil, Acorn, C if, Crescent & M  Seal Plug T otn s.

44,  46  and  48  South  Division  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

-WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups  is  Always  Complete.

Tobaccos, Vinegars  and.  Spices [! 

OURlMOTTOs  “ SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANAND MAN.”

-W E  MAKE  SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

BARBOUR’S  CAMPAIGN  TORCH

The  only  Torch  th a t  can  be  taken  apart  and  shipped  in  a 

Small  space.

300 to 500 Torches complete (except handles)  can  be packed  In  one 

barrel, thus making the freight or express charges very low.

A  Child can P ut them together in  one Minute.

As  good  as  any  Torch  Made.  The  Cheapest  in  Price.

W ILL  BURN  FOR  FIVE  HOURS.
Ask for price or send for sample order.

FOSTER,  S T E V E N S   <&  CO.

10  and 12 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Hercules  Powder !
STUMP  AND  ROOK  ANNIHILATOR  !

THE  GREAT

SEN D   FOB  PRICES.

O IL   C L O T H S,

BTO..  ETO.

6  and  8 Monroe  Street,

JOEOST  O-A.TJLF’IEILID,
General  Wholesale  Dealer.

Grand Rapids,

SEEDS!

W e w ill sell  to the 
Trade  for Spot  Cash, 
until  further  notice:

$1.55
.75

Delivered free on board cars in lots of 
5 bags or  more.  Cartage  charged  on 
sm aller quantities.

G U M   RAPIDS  SEED  CD.
JOHN  CAULFIELD

91  CANAL  STREET.

Is  our  Agent  in  Grand  Rapids  for  our 

FAMOUS

The best easy  washer manufactured.

B. J.  Johnson & Co.,

MILWAUKEE.

B -A -T T U S T E U R S !
We are prepared to get  up  on  short  notice 
Banners  and Transparencies of all kinds.  Let­
tered, with or without Portraits of Candidates. 
Ropes to put"up  same  also  furnished.  State 
size you want and we will quote prices.

J O B B E R S   O F

HO RSE  COVERS,  OILED  CLOTH­

ING, A W N ING S, TENTS,

ETC.,  ETC.

k

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

A.  OH.IPPBN,

BO  YOU  K N O W

—THAT—

XioriUard’s  Climax

PLUG  TOBACCO

With Red Tin Tag, is the best?  Is  the purest; 
is never adulterated with glucose, barytes, mo­
lasses or any deleterous ingredients, as  is  the 
case with many other tobaccos?
Lorillard’s Rose  Leaf Fine Cut Tobaec-o 
is also made of the  finest  stock,  and  for  aro­
matic chewing quality is second to none.
take first rank as a solid  durable  smoking to­
bacco wherever introduced.
Lorillard’s  Famous  Snuifs 
have  been  used  for  over  124  years,  and are 
sold to a larger extent than any others.

Lorillard’s  Navy  Clippings 

OYSTERS l

We duplicate Chicago and Detroit prices and 
guarantee  as strictly fresh  stock  and  as  well 
filled  cans  as  any  in  the  market—at bottom 
prices.

SEED© !

Clover, Timothy and all kinds  field  seeds  at 
bottom prices.  Write for quotations  when in 
need of seeds.
Oranges and Lemons
Green and Dried Fruits, Butter, Eggs,  and  all 
kinds of Produce.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

122  Monroe  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
M. M. HOUSEMAN,

ATTORNEY  AT  LAW,

ROOMS  7  AND  8  HOUSEMAN  BUILDING,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

COMMERCIAL  LAW  A  SPECIALTY.

DILWORTH’S

—THE—

BEST  ROASTED  PACKAGE  COFFEE  ON 

THE  MARKET.

F O R   S A L E   B  Y

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

sum,

WEATHERLY 

CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IRON

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  F ixtures, 

Plumbers,  Steam  Fitters,
—And Manufacturers of—  ^

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Law as Chicago and Detroit.

B rass  Goods,  Iron  a nd  B rass Fittings 

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

C. S. YALE & BRO.

-Manufacturers  of-

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUIKTOS,  ETC.,

40  and  42  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  

MICH.

Needed by every retail  grocer  or  confec 
tioner,  one  or  more  of  Kenyon’s  Patent 
Spring Paper  Bag  Holders.  Each  has  ca­
pacity of containing about fifty bags.  Their 
great convenience can be learned  by  having 
one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen 
expressed for $2.50 from  Kenyon  Brothers, 
Wakefield, Rhode  Island.

COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
I 05
90
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
1 40
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
l 40
Car lots......................./ .......................... 1 05@1 10
Plastering hair, per bu.................. . 
26®  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
1 75
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 76
3 00
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M...................................$25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00®8 25 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell,  ear lots................................... 
®6 75
Ohio Lump, car lots.............. .........  3 25®3 50
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@6 00

COAL.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E  3ST <3-1 1ST E  S

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,'  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.
"W".  O,  I3©nison,

88,90 and 92 South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

'Blaine  Whips, 
ilanfl  Whn

A nd  Lashes  of A ll  Kinds  and  Prices.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Orders  Promptly  Filled.

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed......................................5:00 am   5:15 pm
Express...................................4:10 pm   8:30 pm
Express....................................8:30 am   10:15 am
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. & P. M.  trains to  and  from Ludington  and 
Manistee.

G .R O !S& C O ,M iplS
Hamilton  Carhartt  &  Go.,
Men’s Furnishing Goods

WHOLESALE

J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

MANUFACTURERS OF

The “Carhartt” Pantaloons, Overalls, Engineers’ Jackets, Jumpers’ Shirts, etc.  Upon our 
manufactured goods, we guarantee to save the trade the  Jobbers’  Profits.  Samples  sent
Detroit.
118 Jefferson Ave.

for Comparison.

D W ELLIN G  Sin

WHOLESALE

-AND—

I s T O T I  OUSTS!

PANTS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRTS, 
LADIES’  AND  GENTS’  HOSIERY,  UNDER­
WEAR,  MACKINAWS,  NECKWEAR,  SUS­
PENDERS,  STATIONERY,  POCKET  CUT- 
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK­
ERS’  SUNDRIES,  HARMONICAS,  VIOLIN 
STRINGS, ETC.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  J ohn D. Man- 
gtjm,  A.  M.  Sprague,  John  H.  Eacker, 
L. R.  Cesna,  Geo. W.  N. D e J onge. 
Frank Berles 
21 Pearl Street

House Salesman.

-  

TIME TABLES.

—I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  MY -

Spring  Styles  of Fine  Hats,

Spring  Styles  of Wool  Hats,
Spring  Styles  of Stiff  Hats,

Spring  Styles  of Soft  Hats,

Wool  Hats  $4.50  to  $12  per  Dozen,

Fine  Hats  13.50  to  $36  per  Dozen, 

Straw  Hats  for  Men,

Straw  Hats  for  Boys,

Straw  Hats  for  Ladies,

Straw  Hats  for  Misses.

H n ic b   Soli 1)7 Us Dura  at  New  Tort Prices!!

----- LARGE  LINE  OF-----

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

Cottonade Pants and Hosiery»

DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS,  $3.50  PER  DOZEN  AND  UPWARDS.

Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities

I-  O.  LEVI,

36, 38, 40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

-  

- 

GRAND  R A PID S,  MIOHIGAN

The  Old. Rolialol©

Pioneer C igar Factory,

**0* » *  

-« a s» *

H.  S C H N E I D E R   <&  C O

21  Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids.

PROPRIETORS.

The  following  brands  are  our  own  make and Union labelled goods:  Dick and George, 
Peninsular Club,  Los  Dos,  Selir Fein,  Louise,  Mocking Bird,  Evening Star  and  K .  T. 
We are jobbers of all kinds of Tobaccos  ann  Smokers’  Articles.

The Niagara, Falls (Route.

¡ppjigpl»

D EPA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
^Detroit Express............................................  6:00 am
+Day  Express..........................................12:25 p m
♦New York Fast Line....................................  6:00 pm
tAtlantio Express.................................... 9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express............................................... 6:4 am
■(■Local  Passenger............. .....................11:20 a m
+Mail..........................................................3:20 p m
•(•Grand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

A R R IV E .

+Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

GO IN G  W EST.

G O IN G  EA ST.Arrives. 
Leaves.
tSteamboat Express..........6:10 am  
6:20 am
^Through  Mail......................10:15 am   10:20 am
tEvening  Express.................3:20 p m  3:55 p m
♦Atlantic Express................   9:45 pm   10:45 pm
■(•Mixed, with  coach............ 
10:30 am
•(•Morning  Express............... 12:40 p m  12:55 p m
•(Through  Mail..................  5:00 p m 
5:10 pm
tSteamboat Express............10:30 p m  10:35 p m
tMixed.................................. 
7:10 a m
♦NightExpress.....................  5:10 am   5:30am
•(•Daily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit ipr New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  10:35  p,  m.  will  mak  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday and the train leaving at 5:10 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for Chicago.
Limited  Express  has  Wagner Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to  Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. Potter, City Pass. Agent.
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand  Eapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH,

G O ING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves. 
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:00 pm   11:00 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  10:25 a m 
Ft.Wayne&MackinacEx..  3:55 pm   5:00pm 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:10 a m
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.  6:30 p m  7:00 a m 
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:10 pm   4:35 pm 
Mackinac & Ft. Way i eE x.. 10:25 am   11:42 pm  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m

S LE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving at 10:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at 10:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac 
City.
South-^Train leaving at 4:35 p. m. bas  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Miohigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail........................................9:15 am   4:00 pm
+Day Express..................... 12:25 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express....................8:35 pm   6:10 am
Mixed......................................6:10 am   10:05 pm
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on9:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Jennings  &  Smith,

(Props.  Arctic Manufacturing Co.,)

M AN UFA CTU RERS  O F

Fine Perfum es

— AND—

Toilet Articles.

JEOTINGS’

A R C T I C

I m p r o v e d

M il  P i * ,

Bluings,
Inks,

Mucilage,

^ Ì M S s iP
Is  
'Mproved
b a k i n g
p o w d e r

Kid Dressing, Etc.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe  Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat­
ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State.  Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready 
for  inspection.

OH

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

FIRST  ON  DECK

W ith  O Y S T E R S , as usual.  W© 
shall receive the first shipment from Bal­
timore on Sept. 4th, of the Old Reliable

MAMEN  BRANDJ

w hich  are  the best filled cans in market, 
and w ill  continue  to  receive  them  daily 
bo  express.  Present  price  w ill  be  25 cts 
for  Standards and 35 cts for  Selects.

Also  Agent  for  Murphy  <&  Edgett’s 

Celebrated Deviled  Crabs.

Yours Truly,

i .  o .  o -F tE E n s r .

Q-rand Rapids, Mich,

BUSINESS LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of East Resort.

T R A D E -  M A R K .

In the  opinion  of the  United  States  Cir­
cuit Court for the district  of  Rhode  Island, 
a trade mark may  be  bought  and  sold  in 
connection with the article with which  it  is 
associated  in the same way  as  other  prop­
erty. 
It  constitutes a part  of  partnership 
assets and is properly  sold  with  firm  pro­
perty.

C O N S T IT U T E S   A   T E N D E R .

The Supreme Court of  Wisconsin,  in  the 
recently  decided 
case  of  Elderkin  vs. 
Fellows, held  Jhat an offer  of  payment  to 
constitute  a tender must be understood  as a 
tender absolute and  unconditional,  and  to 
treat an offer of payment conditional upon a 
discharge from the whole  debt as a  tender 
is  a  fatal  error.

F I R E  

IN S U R A N C E — M O R G A G E E S 

IN T E R E S T .
A policy of insurance issued  to a mortgag­
or of real estate made payable to  the  mort­
gagee  in  case of loss is an insurance of the 
interest of the  mortgagor  in  the estate and 
not  of  the 
the  mortgagee 
and  in  such  case  the  mortgagee  is  not 
an  assignee of the policy,  and 
is  affected 
by subsequent acts of the assured.—Supreme 
Court of New Hampshire.

interest  of 

P A T E N T E D   A R T IC L E — S A L E .

The purchase of a  patented  article  from 
the patentee confers  upon  the  buyer 
the 
right to use the article to  the same extent as 
though it were not  the subject  of  a patent; 
but the sale does not import  the  permission 
of the vendor that it may be used in  a  way 
that would violate his exclusive property  in 
another  invention.—United  States  Circuit 
Court, Southern District of New  York.

R IG H T   T O   D R A W   W A T E R .

If a grantor of two pieces of  land,  in  his 
conveyance of the first,  reserves  to  himself 
the right to  draw water from a well situated 
upon it, this right, though  enjoyed  by  him 
in his occupation of the  second  piece,  does 
not pass by  his  subsequent  conveyance  of 
that piece.  When land is conveyed by deed, 
an easement of convenience merely  in other 
land  does not  pass by  implication— Went 
worth vs. Philpot, Supreme  Court  of  New 
Hampshire.

D E F E N S E — WTA N T   O F   C O N S ID E R A T IO N .
The Supreme  Court  of  New  Hampshire 
holds that in an action by an indorsee against 
the maker of a  promisory  note  transferred 
for value before  maturity,  the  defense  of 
want of consideration, or that the  note  was 
given for a worthless patdnt, or for  an  arti­
cle not patented, but  fraudulently represent­
ed to be, can not be  made,  if  the  indorsee, 
at the  time  of the  transfer,  had  no  know­
ledge or notice of the facts relied on as a de­
fense, mere suspicion of  facts  which  could 
be a defence to a note  in  the  hands  of  the 
payee, is  not notice of, and does not put the 
indorsee upon  inquiry as to such facts.

F R A U D U L E N T   C O N V E Y A N C E .
A creditor filed  a  bill  in  equity 

to  set 
aside a voluntary  deed  to the  debtor’s wife 
as  fraudulent  as  to  him.  The  deed  has 
been recorded for more than a sufficient time 
to bar the action by the statute of limitations 
and the defense of the statute  was  pleaded. 
The trial court decided in favor of the plain­
tiff, on the ground that the statute  did  not 
begin to run against  him until  he  discover­
ed  the fraud.  The  defendant  carried 
the 
case to  the Court  of  Appeals,  where  this 
judgement  was  affirmed.  The Chief  Jus­
tice, Hargis, in the  opinion said:  “The  re­
cording of conveyances  made  in  good faith 
and for a valuable consideration  within  the 
time prescribed by the  registry  laws  is  no­
tice to the world of  their  existence  and  re­
cordable contents;  but  where  the  convey­
ance is voluntary  its registration is  not con­
structive notice of its  existence  or  contents 
to  a  subsequent  purchaser  for  a  valuable 
consideration without actual notice.  A  pre­
existing creditor stands in  a  better  position 
than a purchaser; he has  the  right  to  rely 
upon the  condition of his  debtor  when  his 
debt was created, and  he is  not  bound 
to 
keep constant watch  over the public records 
for the voluntary conveyances his debtor may 
make, else be barred by  limitations  regard­
less of the time of  actual  discovery  of  the 
conveyance or  its  equivalent.”  Ward  vs. 
Thomas, Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

The  Borrowing  Family.

From the Detroit Free  Press.

The borrowing family sent their boy Jack 
over to Mrs. Murphy’s  to  borrow  some  tea 
and sugar and a plate of butter.  Mrs.  Mur­
phy was busy and had no inclination to lend 
to neighbors who  never  returned  anything 
they borrowed.  At the same  time  she  did 
not care to entirely offend them.

“I’d be  glad  to  accommodate  yees,”  she 
said politely, “but oim in a hurry and haven’t 
the time to wait on  ye. 
I’ve  other  fish  to 
fry just now.”

The boy went home and reported that Mrs. 
Murphy was too busy to attend to  him,  and 
had other fish to fry, etc.

“And  why  didn’t  ye  wait?”  asked  his 
mother breathlessly. 
“Go  back  and  take 
another  plate  wid  you,  and  tell Mistress 
Murphy you’re in no burry, and mother’d be 
much  obliged to  her for a plate of the  fried 
fish.”

Osculation is the art of hitting the popular 

taste, and is generally hit with a miss.

(Brocerieô.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

C. W. Loud succeeds Loud  jfe  Bell  in  the 

agricultural implement business.

Last  week  Neal  Malloy &  Co. succeeded 
Johnson & Co. in the planing mill  business. 
This week L. Dodds  succeeds  Neal  Malloy 
& Co. 

________________

Dewey  D.  Hawes,  formerly book-keeper 
for Putnam & Brooks, will open a  boot  and 
shoe  and  gents’  furnishing  goods store  at 
505 South Division street about October 1.

Adam  Bouse,  dealer  in  boots  and  shoes 
and groceries at Grand Junction, has put  in 
a line  of  dry goods, furnished by Spring  & 
Company.  W. H. Downs placed  the order,
Wm. H. Bouse has  invented  and  applied 
for letters patent on a laminated  wood  pail 
for packing purposes, and it is  not  unlikely 
that a stock company will  be  organized  for 
the purpose of engaging in the  manufacture 
of the article.

Nearly all the creditors of the late  firm of 
C. G. McCulloch  &  Co.  have  agreed  to  the 
25 per cent compromise  offered by John H. 
DeLaney, and  it  is  probable  that  all  will 
wheel  into  line  within  the  next month, in 
which  case  Mr.  DeLaney  will  resume  the 
business.

J.  M.  Carr  has  executed  a  deed  to  As 
signee  Houseman,  waiving  the  exemption 
legally  due  him, which is an act of self  de­
nial that will be appreciated by the creditors 
of the estate. 
It is understood  that the Old 
National  Bank  will  realize  enough  on  its 
mortgages to pay its claim in full.

AROUND THE  STATE.

T. S. Jordan succeeds C.  H. Smith in gen 

eral trade in Elmira.

A. Laird has started  a grain  and  produce 

market at New  Hudson.

T. H.  Bush, novelty dealer at St. Johns, is 

reported to have assigned.

C.  W.  Marvin,  furniture  dealer  and  un­

dertaker at Ovid, has sold out.

Lenhart & Fryfogle succeed  Krebs & Len 

hart in general trade at Sunfield.

H. B. Gillett  & Co., meat  dealers at Reed 

City, are-reported to have assigned.

Daniel Lovelace succeeds E. H. Benton in 

the restaurant business at Lakeview.

John  Chamberlin  succeeds  Chamberlin 
& Parmelee in general trade at East  Jordan,
A.  L.  Overpack  succeeds  S. C. Overpack 
& Bro. in the harness business  at  Manistee, 
Herries, Atchinson  &  Co. succeed  Birch­
ard & Herries  in  the  drug business at  Mid 
land.

Sharp  &  Schepers  have  engaged  in  gen 
eral trade at Ebenezer, four miles from Hol­
land.

E. Trump is removing his dry goods stock 
at Reed City to East Saginaw, where he will 
re-engage in trade.

Elmira is in need of a first-class  boot  and 
shoe store, and D. C. Underwood has a suit­
able building which he will rent for that pur­
pose.

The  liabilities  will  exceed  the  assets 

the case of Frank H. Burt, of  S t Johns, the 
cigar  dealer,  who  assigned  to  Charles  M. 
Merrill.

Wm.  J.  Coulter, an  Ontonagon  druggist, 
has the dissatisfaction of seeing his store  in 
possession of Bosworth &  Sons, Milwaukee, 
on a chattel  mortgage.

Calkins & Dunning  dissolved  partnership 
at Allegan.  Mr. Calkins  will  continue  the 
milling  and  feed  store  business  and  Mr. 
Dunning will deal in grain.

Goodenow’  &  Co.,  dry  goods  dealers  at 
Quincy, have given four  chattel  mortgages, 
aggregating $11,000.  The  stock  covered  is 
worth from $12,000 to $14,000.

Dell Wright, for several years past identi­
fied  with  W. G. Watson & Son, at  Coopers- 
ville, has purchased  the F. C. Brisbin  stock 
at Berlin, and will continue  the business  at 
the old stand.

Mrs.  M.  A.  (James)  Shields  has  closed 
out the grocery business  at  Big Rapids, ow­
ing  to  the  existence of  legal complications 
outside the  business.  The stock  is  now  in 
possession of Fox, Musselman &  Loveridge.
Sheldon  &  Meecham,  general  dealers  at 
Sherwood, Branch  county,  have  purchased 
the  building  at Ransom,  Hillsdale  county, 
formerly occupied by Mr. Schermerhorn, and 
have removed their stock and business to the 
latter place.

Wm. C. Lovelace, of the firm of Winches­
ter & Lovelace, general  dealers  at Wyman 
is  to  be  married  to-day  to  Miss  M.  Dell 
Gardner,  the  belle  of  Stanton.  The  cere­
mony  occurs  at the residence of  the bride’s 
parents at Stanton.

Patch Bros., druggists  at Salt River, have 
dissolved,  G.  L.  Patch  continuing.  The 
other  brother,  A.  L.  Patch, has  purchased 
the  drug  stock  and business of J. D. Peter­
son,  at  that  place,  and  will  continue  the 
business at the old stand.

G. C. W. Richards, the Sheridan druggist, 
who gave a chattel mortgage on March 18 to 
his step-mother for $1,700, was  recently  at­
tached for $525 by Max Mills, at the instance 
of Hazeltme, Perkins & Co., the  attachment 
-covering goods not included in the mortgage 
and those purchased since it was given.  An 
inventory has been taken,  and  further pro­
ceedings have been postponed until  word  is 
received from Richards,  who  is  at  present 
sojourning in Canada. 
It is understood that 
the attaching creditors have found enough to 
satisfy their claim,  but  that  the  mortgage 
does not cover enough to make good its face, 
There are several  other  creditors  who  will 
undoubtedly come out the little  end  of  the 
horn.

D. Yinton & Son, the  Williamsburg  gen-  Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard............................................3 50

stray  FACTS. 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Allegan adds a cigar box  factory to its in­

The Livonia fruit dryer building is nearly 

terests.

completed.

It costs between $150,000  and  $200,000 a 

AXLE  GREASE.

.......  85
FrftZPr'B
.......  60
Diamond
.......  60
iuUUUL  . .
.......  70
I  tU ItgU ll •
Paragon, 20 ft pails............................. .......  90

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

year to drive Muskegon  River.

ji; 

. 

,, 

beeifshut down for the season. 

J. B. McArthur’s  mill, at Cheboygan, has  Arctic 54 »cans.............................. V doz.

Two  shingle  mills  have  been  started  at 1 Arctic l  »  cans.................................................

Arctic 54 ft cans.........................................   ,  .A
Arctic 54 fb cans.............. ................................ J 40
.12 00

Cedar, and a saw mill is wanted there.

The capital  of  the Western Lumber  Co., I Dry, No. 2—

at Manistique, has been increased to $1,000,- 
000. 

oz......

Liquid, 8 oz,

turing an average of forty stoves per day, or  Arctic 16 oz...............

Bement & Sons, of Lansing, are  manufac-  Arctics  oz......t .....................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box..........
000 per month. 
I Arctic No. 2
The South  Haven  fruit  package  factory  Arctic No. 3 

BROOMS

.. ..doz.
__ doz.
... doz. 
__ doz.

gross it 00 
8  00 
12  00 
2 00
3  00
4 50

 

, 

I 

^ 

employs 60 hands six months  of  the  year, I 
2 50
and turns out 300,000  packages,  220,000 of  No! 2 C a rp et!.........................................   ^ 25
y
which are for peaches. 
2 oo
1 25 

.............................................. 
No. 1 Parlor Gem....................................  
......................... 

i w,„.i 
The proposed extension of the C. & W. M. J No^Huri^

^.Ailway will touch Spencer  Creek, and con- j
Railway will touch Spencer  Creek, and con-1 common Whisk...................................
own  communication 
sequently  afford  that  town  communication | Coye0y8terSi j ¿"standards.................... 1 15
I ilnvfn Ovsters. 1
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards...................   1 95
with the outside world.
Johns has two fruit evaporators which  Cove g y s S i  »  
!!'..' *.'. •'  '•! A 25
up  a  great  many apples which  would  clams, 1 ft  standards.................................. £ jjjj
2 65
dry  up  a  great  m«uj 
otherwise  be  converted  into  cider.  Thus I M^ g ’rel, l^ fre sh  standards...............120
18
the temperance cause is  promoted. 

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--—-----......... 

c a n n e d   f i s h .

S t

o .T . Booth, of  Charlevoix,  has 

eral dealers, have a combined artificial trout J 
g, Columbia riv e r..........................1 60
pond and boiling spring, which isacuriosity  Salmon,2 ft Cotembmriver....••••••••• -2 j|0
salmon! Wm. Hume’s Eagie.....................  1  85
well worth going a hundred miles to  see. 
¡SgSSl: a»“  
:  ¿ 4
to eastern points  16  cargoes  of wood  this I gardines,  Mustard  54s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  14s.......................... • • •  1»
season,  aggregating 1,900 cords.  Booth was 
Sardines, imported 54s.. .......•.....................
Sardines, imported 54s, boneless...............  02
formerly a country newspaper  man,  and is 
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  50
now wooding up his  depleted resources,
Trout, 3 ft  brook.,............. .........«..........   *> w

Williamsburg  people  are  confident  that 
they will have a railway  connection  before 
many more months roll around.  The  town
is growing rapidly, and has every promise of I Cherries,  red„ .----------........ ...................1
becoming a place of considerable importance. | Damsons — ....... 
................................}

Apples, 3 ft standards 
^ ...................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie..............2 50
Blackberries, standards.............................j 25

CA NN ED F R U IT S .

. 

’ 

. 

, 

uuumi, 

^ ^ darde 

*— 0 I Peaches;  seconds

Prospects  are  brightening  up  at  West- 

The  country  surrounding J Peaches, s^E xtra 

................... 1 45
wood, several extensive manufacturing firms  Green Gages, standards 2 ft.......................1 40
, .   Green Gages,  ...............................................j-22
having their eyes on the place as a desirable I peaehes, 3 ft  standards...............................1 75
65
point  to  locate. 
1  15
the  town  is  excellent  for  farming,  and  is  Pie Peaches3ft..^.............. 
ia )
gradually attracting a  desirable  class of set-  pineapples,^ft  stand....*” .’. .*................... 1 40
tlers‘ 
„  ^ p b erries,’ 2 ft stand................................ 125
A  Hudson  merchant,  to  dispose of  some  1 Raspberries, 2 ft Erie..................................140
clean packing straw from a box he was open-  s t r a w b e r r i e s , ^ l b ‘
ing, put it into the wagon of a farmer, think-  Apricots, Lusk’s....: ..............................
ing  it  would  make  good  bedding  for  the J G“gen Gages”          ...................................2 85
team.  The farmer came in and demanded a  Pears ^............................”.3 00
dollar of the dealer, and got it, to soothe  his I peaches ” ................................................3 00
wounded feelings. 
...3 25
...  85
Urbana and other Ohio towns October 6 and I Beans! S tr in g ■ 
...................................,  Jj®.
7,  to  Elmira,  for  the  purpose  of  securing I ilaM ’ltS a g iS s ii! *.!!'.'.” !!!'. 1! 
100
purchasers  for  the  excellent  railway lands  Corn, E r ie -..................” ” ” ” .”.." ” ” ” ” 1 20
surrounding  the  town.  This method of se- j corn!  Egyptian....................................... 1 16
curing  the  infusion  of  new  blood will  uu*  corn lio p h y “th:"!!!!.‘!*..’.” ‘.!!!’..” !!!"!!l 15
doubtedly  give  a  considerable  impetus  to [com ,2 ft  Onandago................................ite
Elmira and surrounding towns. 
Pea8) gtandard  Marrofat............................l 40
Elmira claims to have  erected  more  sub-  Peas, 2 ft  Early, small  (new).....................160

There  will  be  a  large  excursion  from Asparagus, Oyster Bay. 
___ _____  
Beans, Lim a..................

c a n n e d   v e g e t a b l e s .

| 

.

r

s

d

t S

|Ely’s Waterproof

stantial and fine-looking buildings during the  peas! French 2 ft.......................................... 23@26
present season than  any  other  town  of  its  P
 .* .* .* .* .* .*.' .*.'.' .*.' .* .* .*.'  »5
size along the Grand Rapids & Indiana.  The I succotash, 2 ft B.& M..............................1 ^
lands adjacent to the place are said to be un-  Tomatoes* ft Dil worth's*. v
-1 05
excelled any where,  and  the  country  round-1 Tomatoes, 3 ft Job Bacon........................... 1 05
about is fast  filling  up  with  an  intelligent j G-  D.....................   35 
and thrifty population.  Parties working  in  Musket...............J*®  T 4rm,
the interest of the J.,  L.  &  S.  Railway  re-  Bogton  premium 
@36
cently made a ‘preliminary  line  for  a  road  Baker’s premium......................................  ©40
from Gaylord to Charlevoix, crossing the  G. j german  sweet*.! *.!.!.................................  @25
UCliuau 
......................................  —
Vienna Sweet..................  .......................   @25
R. & L at Elmira.
Kalamazoo Gazette:  A bad case  of  bill- 
@14
Green Rio.................................* ..........
@27
Green Java......................................... . • -¿7
iousness developed itself in one of  our meat 
markets a day or two since.  A member of a 
@17@34
Roasted Rio........................................... ¿2
Roasted  Java........................................ 34
family who had recently failed  in  business
@19
,  Roasted Mar.......................................... 17
went in and called for spring  chickens,  and  Roasted Mocha...................................... rn/Jaiq
was very particular about getting good ones. 
;;;;;; " " " l  " i ” i" ;” " *.  9V4@17
A  creditor, who had been left,  happened  to  Ground  Mex...........................................  @16
be standing by, and he walked boldly  up  to | y y y y .... .  .  ...................................   @1534
(o&ioTi

Dilwortii’8 .............................................
1 Levering’s .................*........................... 
liver.  Tableaux—-Party of the first part has | Magnolia.................................................
important business in another direction.

_____

CORDAGE.

CO FFEE.

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M.  C.  Russell  and  wife  will  put  in  the 
week  at  Kalamazoo, in  attendance  on  the 
State fair.

Hudson merchants have taken to advertis­
ing for sale book accounts against delinquent 
customers.

Oranges are steady at about former prices.
The  lemon  crop  is nearly all in, and  prices 
are higher,  Nuts are steady,

The Erie Preserving Co. has effected a set­
tlement with its creditors on the basis  of  75 
per cent., and has resumed  business.

Assignee Houseman has gone to Morley to 
superintend the disposal of a portion  of  the 
J. M. Carr estate advertised for sale.

Dealers having  potatoes, apples and  eggs 
for sale would  do  well  to  correspond  with 
F. J. Lamb & Co., Grand  Rapids, Mich 

All  the  grocery  jobbers  have  signed  an

72 foot J u te .......1 25
60 foot Jute.......1  05

160 foot Cotton__1 75
50 foot Cotton__1 50

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

 

 

1 00
Jennings’ 2 oz......................................^  6oz
1 50
4 oz.................................................
2 50
6 oz.........................  .....................
.........................................   „
3 50
No. 2 Taper...................................  1 35
1  75
No. 4 
34 pint  round...................................... 4 50
No.  8.....................................................3 00
No. 10............................................   4 25
Jennings’ 2 oz......................................¥  doz.  1 40
4 oz.................................................."50
•* 
•• 
6 oz..........................................................4 00
8oz........................................................   5 00
“ 
“  No. 2  Taper.........................................   1 50
No.  4 Taper...................................   3 00
“ 
•* 
34 pint  round.......................................  7 50
“ 
1 pint  round........................................ 15 00
»  No.  8.....................................................  4 25
“  No.  10...................................................   6 00

Vanilla.

FAUCETS.
Faucets,  self  measuring......................  @2 50
Faucets, common...............
F IS H .
Whole Cod..............................................
Boneless Cod....................................... . 

5@7@8

agreement not to sell  Hiawatha  fine cut  be- J HerringT 34 bbisVloo ft..................... 2 50@300
low the following prices:  Under  six ’pails  ( HeSngHolland
@90 
5 75 
67c;  from six to ten pails, 65c; ten pails and 
2 25 
95 
over, 64c.
1 05
5 20 
90
6 00 
1 00

White, No. 1,14 b b ls..........................
White, Family, 14 bbls.......................
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.......................
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.......................
Trout, No.  1,14  bbls..........................
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits.......................
Mackerel, No. 1,14 bbls.....................
Mackerel, No. 1,12 ft  kits................

P ub lishers’  A nnou

With the present  number  a  considerable 
number of subscriptions  expire. 
If the  pa­
per has been acceptable in the past,  there  is 
no reason why it should not be made doubly 
so in the future, and it is urgently requested 
that those whose  subscriptions  expire  with 
this issue will send in their renewals prompt­
ly.  A t$l per year, no paper is better worth 
the  money.

FRUITS.

% 75
London Layers, new.............................. 
Loose Muscatel Raisins,  new.............   @2
9
Loose  Muscatel  Raisins,  old.............  
New Valencias Raisins.........................  714@714
D ehesia.................................................
Ondaras...................................................
Turkey Prunes...................................... 
Currants.................................................  5
Dried A pples.........................................  8  ©814

@?!4

MATCHES.

The  N ew   B ank  at Ovid.

From the Ovid Union.

S. D.  French,  of  St.  Johns, representing 
the First National Bank of  Ovid,  of  which 
R. M. Steel is president, has purchased from 
J. C. Darragh, assignee of Sowers &  White, 
the bank building, comer of Main and Front 
streets, paying for the same spot cash $7,250 
In this building, on or before  October 1, the 
newly organized bank will open for business. 
The building is [considered  well  converted, 
being sold above $6,500, the  amount  invoic­
ed in the schedule of assets as given by the as­
signee of Sowers & White.

Grand Havap,  No. 9, square........................ 2
Grand Haven, No. 8, square............k .........1
Grand Haven,  No.  200,  parlor.....................2
Grand Haven,  No.  300, parlor.....................3
Grand Haven,  No.  7,  ro u n d .................... 2
Richardson’8 No. 2  square.............................2
do 
Richardson’s No. 3 
2
................ 
do 
.............................1
Richardson’s No. 5 
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
................ 
2
do 
Richardson’s No. 8 
........ 
1
.............................2
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
Richardson’s No. 4 round.............................. 2
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
........... 
2
....................i........J
Richardson’s No. 714 do 
Electric Parlor No. 17......................-...........
Electric Parlor No. 18................................... -4
g 1“ * Strap...................................................16@18
New  Orleans,  good.....................................*
New Orleans, fancy................................. v®

MOLASSES.

 
 

 

OATMEAL

185 ftpkgs...............................................   @3 75
362ft pkgs...............................................   @3 25
Imperial  bbls.........................................  @5 50
Quaker bbls............................................ 
’ @6 75
Steel  cut................................................   @5 75

do. 

Kerosene  W. W...................................... 
Legal test.............................. 
Sweet, 2 oz. square................................. 
Sweet, 2  oz. round................................. 
Castor, 2 oz.  square...............................  
Castor, 2 oz. round................................. 

1314
10%
75
1 00
75
1 00

OIL.

PICKLES.

do 
do 

Choice in barrels med........................................... 7 00
...................................... 4 00
Choice in *4 
small................................. 4 25
Dingee’s 54 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................................4 25
Dingee’s pints 
.........................  2 25
do 
American qt.  in Glass......................................... 2 00
American pt.in Glass......................................1 25
C. & B. English  quarts........................................6 00
C. & B. English  pints...........................................3 60
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  quarts.. .6 00
pints__ 3 60
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pts..2 75

“ 
“ 

*’ 

“ 

“ 

Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No.  216.........................  @2 25
American T. I).......................................   90@1  00

PIPES.

RICE.

Choice  Carolina................................................614
Prime  Carolina.................................................714
Java  ....................................................................6yi
P atn a.......................... . .....................................6
Rangoon.............................................................524

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure.............................................. @514
Church’s  .......................................................@514
Taylor’s  G. M................................................@514
Cap  Sheaf.............................................................@ 514
Dwight’s ...............................................................@ 514
Sea  Foam...................................................... @ 514
S., B. &L.’s Best...........................................@ 514

SALT.

60 Pocket................................................ 
28 Pocket.................................................  
1003 ft pockets.......................................  
Saginaw F ine......................................... 
Diamond C.............................................. 
Standard  Coarse....................................  
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags—  
American, dairy, 14 bu. bags.................... 
Rock, bushels— ........................................  

2 50
3 35
3 65
t 00
1 75
1 55
80
3 20

25
30

SAUCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 14 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, 14 pints..................................   @1  50
Halford Sauce,  large............................  @3 75
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, green.............................   @  90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1 30
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 60
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @  90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ..: .................  @1 30
Horseradish,  14 pints................................  @1 00
Horseradish, pints.....................................  @1 30
Capers, French surflnes...........................  @2 25
Capers, French surflnes, large............  @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle......................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle...................... 
@6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia & Co.’s —   @7 00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co,’s ........   @4 00
Olive Oil, 14 pints, Antonia & Co.’s—   @2 50

SEEDS.

H em p............. ••...................................... 
Canary..................................................... 
Rape........................................................ 
Mixed Bird...............................................  

5
414
7
514@6

SOAP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

@ 6

Acme, 701 ft  bars...................................  @614
Acme, 25 3 ft bars................................-.  @614
Towel, 25 bars  ...........................................  @5 25
Napkin, 25  bars.........................................   @5 25
Best American, 601 ft blocks............... 
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................  @534
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3 70
Master, 100-34 ft cakes..........................  @5 00
Stearine, 100  34 ft cakes............. .........  @4 85
Marseilles, white, 100 34 ft  cakes........  
@6 25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 34 ft  cakes........  
@6 25
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped............  @7
German Mottled, wrapped..................  @614
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................  @534
5% 
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks.
@ 5 
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks............
@4 00 
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft— '.......
@4 00 
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 ft.............
@3 85 
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
@4 00 
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped,................
@3 25 
Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped.................
@2 30 
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.....................
@1 25 
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box
@4 20 
A 1  Floating, 60 cakes..........................
614 
Kirk’s*American  Family........... f! ft
554 
do. 
India.........................................
do.  Savon........................................
554 
554 
do.  Satinet__ .’...............................
5y,
do.  Revenue..................................
5  10 
do.  White Russian.........................
Goodrich’s English Family  ...............
514 
414
Princess............................
6 75 
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory.................
5
Japan  O live..........
3 60
box
Town Talk 
4 10 
Golden Bar.............
3 40
Arab.......................
3 75
Amber.....................
4 20 
Mottled  German..
@3 40 
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................
@3 20 
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........
@3 05
Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well..........
@ ey,
Badger............................................ 60 fts
@4 20 
Galvanic.................................................
@1854 
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
@  16 
Tip Top....................................... 3ft bar
@6 75 
Ward’s White Lily...................—
@4 20
Handkerchief.........................................
3 00
Sidall’s ...................................................
5 50
Babbitt’s ................................................
4  15
Dish R ag................................................
5 00 
Bluing......................................................
4 20
Magnetic.................................................
4 50
New  French  Process............................
5 00
Spoon ......................................................
5 00
Anti-Wash board....................................
3 25
J aterland................................................
4 20 
Magic........................................................
4 00
Pittsburgh..............................................
6 75 
Bogue’s ...................................................
White castile bars.................................
12 
Mottled castile........................................
10
514
Old Country............................................

do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 

do. 

SPIC E S.

11s

“ 
*• 
“ 
“ 

STARCH.

614
6>4
7
514
7
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk.......  @5

16@25
in boxes and cans...
Ground Pepper, 
Ground  Allspice....................................
12@20
16@30
Cinnamon................................................
20@25
Cloves.....................................................
17@20
Ginger......................................................
15@35
Mustard...................................................
25@35
Cayenne...................................................
75
Pepper J4 lb ^ dozen..............................
75
Allspice  J4 ft...........................................
75
Cinnamon  J4 f t ......................................
Cloves 34  ®.
Pepper, "whole....................................  
@18
@10
Allspice................................................ 
Cassia................................................... 
@10
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   65  @75
Gilbert’s Gloss 1 ft....................................  
“  3 ft cartoons.................... 
“  crates............................  ' 
“  bu lk................................. 
Corn, 1 ft...................................  
@43l
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts...........  
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages...........  
@654
@6*
“  Gloss,  36 3 $  packages........... 
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate___ 
@7
“  Corn, 401 ft  packages...........  
@7
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package...................... 
@654
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................  
@614
©714
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................  
@5?4
@7
Muzzy Corn 1ft...................................... 
Kingsfora Silver Gloss............. ..........  
@8
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft box..........  @8
Kingsf ord Corn...................................... 
@8
Oswego  Gloss.............................  
  @614
Mirror  Gloss...........................................  @614
Mirror Gloss, corn.......
Piel’s Pearl....................
American Starch Co.’s
1 1b  Gloss.................................................  
@6V4
10 oz  Gloss.............................................. 
@354
3ft  Gloss.................. ..............................  
@6
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................   @7
Table Corn......................................40 ft 
@6!
Table  Corn.....................................30  1b  @7
Banner, bulk...........................................  @4
.5 88 Dixon’s  gross... ...5 50
Rising  Sun gross..5 88!
Above $  dozen.....  5C
.5 88 
Universal..... ......... 5 88
.5 50
I X L ............
SUGARS.
Cut Loaf.......
Cubes ..........
Powdered,., JH.
Granulated........ .................................  
Conf.A.................................................. 
Standard A ...
Extra C white
Bx$rftG.....v.  . 
FineC......................................•*............. 
YellowC....................................... . 

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

.  ___
6K@554
5  @6J4

@754
@754
@7
@6H

s t o v e  p o l i s h .

...........  

 

SYRUPS

TEAS.

@50D
@45
@30
@38
@50
@60
@57
@52
@40
@45
@38
@33
@31
@65
@62
@65
@69
@70
@70
@45
@35
@38
@67
@60
@30
@67
@32
@30
@32
@30
@74
@64
@52
@45
@35
@30
@60
@60
@60
@48

33 
Corn,  Barrels.........................................
36 
Corn, 14 bbls............................................
Corn, L0 gallon kegs...............................
@  35 
Com, 5 gallon kegs........ ........................
@1  80 
@1 65 
Corn, 414 gallon kegs.............................
23@  35 
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl
30@  36 
Pure Sugar Drips........................14 bbl
@1 85 
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs
@  95 
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips..............14 bbl
©I 00
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs
Japan ordinary.  24@30|Young Hyson— 25@50
Japanfair............32@35 Gun  Powder....... 35@50
Japan fair to g’d.35@37 Oolong..........33@55@60
Japan fine............40@50 Congo..................    @30
Japan dust..........15@20|
TOBACCO— F IN E   C U f.
Rose Bud..........................................
O:  K ..................................................
,Our  Bird.........................................
Peaches................ ..........................
Morrison’s Fruit............................
i Victor..............................................
Diamond  Crown.............................
Red  Bird..........................................
Opera Queen..................................
Sweet Rose......................................
Green Back....................................
F ruit...............................................
O So Sweet............. •.......................
Prairie Flower...............................
Climber [light and dark].............
Matchless........... '..........................
Hiawatha.......................................
Globe...............................................
May Flower....................................
Hero.................................................
A tlas................................................
Royal Game....................................
Silver Thread.................................
Seal...................................................
Kentucky........ ..............................
Mule  Ear.........................................
Peek-a-Boo.....................................
Peek-a-Boo, 14  barrels..................
Clipper, Fox’s.................................
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels__
Fountain.........................................
Old Congress..................................
Good Luck.....................................
Good and Sweet.. '.........................
Blaze Away..................................
Hair Lifter.....................................
Old Glory, light............................
Charm of the West, dark...........
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil............
B. F. P.’s Favorite.......................
Old Kentucky...............................
Big Four,  2x12.............................
@48
Big Four, 3x12...............................
@48
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12...........
@48
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12.....................
@35
Blackbird, 16 oz.,  3x12.................
@48
Seal of Grand Rapids..................
@50
Glory  ............................................
@48
Durham.........................................
@50
Sii vèr Coin....................................
@36
Buster  [Dark]..............................
@36
Black Prince [Dark]....................
@36
Black Racer  [Dark]....................
@50
Leggett & Myers’  Star.................
@50
Climax...........................................
@48
Hold F ast......................................
@48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield.................
@51
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads.
@37
Cock of the Walk  6s....................
@38
Black Spun  Roll........ .................
@48
Nimrod...........................................
@48
Acorn ............................................
@46
Red Seal........................................
@44
Crescent ........................................
@35
Black  X .........................................
@40
Black  Bass....................................
@35
True Grit.......................................
@50
Nobby  Spun  Roll........................
@50
Spring........................................
@50
Crayling, all  styles.....................
@47
Mackinaw......................................
@50
Horse Shoe....................................
@50
Good Luck................................. .
@40
Big Chunk or J.T........................
@37
Hair Lifter....................................
@37
D. and D., black............................
@48
McAlpin’s Green  Shield...........
@35
Ace  High, black
Champion A ...........................................  @48
...........................  @48
~ 
Sailors’  Solace.
Red Star.......................................
@48
Shot Gun.......................................
@18
D uck............................................ .
Jumbo............................................
Applejack.................................. .
@50
©42
Jack Rabbit.................................
@26

SM OKING.

‘  ~  ' 

PLU G .

 

 

Morning Dew...............................
Chain  •..........................................
Seal of Grand  Radids................
@30
King..............................................
@28
F lirt..............................................
@30
Pug...............................................
@24
Ten Penny Durham, 14 and 14..
@15
Amber, 14 and 1ft.......................
@18
John  Gilpin,  granulated..........
@47
Lime Kiln  Club..........................
@90
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut. 
@90
Vanity  Fair.
Dim e........................................................   18@25
Peerless..................................................   @25
Standard..................................................  @22
Old Tom........................ 
@21
Tom & Jerry...........................................  @24
Joker........................................................  @25
Traveler...................................................  @35
Maiden.....................................................  @36
T opsy......................................................   @37
Navy Clippings......................................  @24
Navy Cl 
@25
 
— 
~ 
Honey Dew
....; ......................  @32
Gold Block__
Camp Fire  ....
@22
.............................. 
.........................  @19
Oronoko..........
..............................  @26
Nigger  Head..
..............................  @60
Durham, % f t . 
..............................  @57
14 f t . 
do 
..............................  @55
do  V4 f t . 
............................  
@51
do 
1 f t .
Holland......................................... ......... 
_
German...................................................  @16
Long Tom...............................................  @30
National............. .....................................*  @26
T im e.......................................................  @36
Love’s Dream.........................................  @28
Conqueror................................ ...........  @33
Fox’s ........................................................  @32
Grayling.................................................   @32
@30
SealSkin........
@25
Dime Durham
@26
Rob Roy. 
@28
Uncle  Sam.
@26
Lumberman.......................................
@37
Railroad Boy.......................................
Mountain Rose....................................
@20@23
Good Enough......................................
Home Comfort, 14s and  14s...............
@a5
Old Rip, long cut...............................
@55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2..................
@25
Two  Nickle, 145........ .........................
@26
Two  Nickle, 14s........ .........................
@25
Star Durham.......................................
@40
Golden Flake Cabinet........................
@52
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz.............
@50
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.............
@48
Seal of North Carolina, 8  oz.............
@50
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes.
@27
Big Deal, 54s  longcut........................
Apple Jack, 548  granulated................   @24
King Bee, longcut, )4s and 54s............  @22
@24
“
Milwaukee Prize, 54s and 548............... 
@24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham —
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, 54 s and 54s............
@28
Rattler, longcut......................................
@25
Windsor cut plug..................................
Mule Ear.................................................
Hiawatha...............................................
Old Congress...........................................
Acme........................................................
@55
Lorillard’s  Macoboy.............................
American Gentleman........
@72
@35
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .......................
Gail & Ax’s Macoboy............................
@44
Scotch, Railroad Mills..........................   ©44
Pure  Cider.......................................
10@ 110@i:
White Wine......................................
W ASH ING PO W D ERS.
6 $  f t ............................................
@1054 
Gillett’s <p ft
“  754
7@10
Soapinepkg............................................  
Pearline $  box........................................  @4 l
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...  @4 l
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs  @4 5 
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 1
Lavine, 6 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap  ©4 ‘ 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 54 ft papers..  @4 :
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 54 ft paprs  @4 (

shorts.

V IN EGA R.

SN U FF.

YEAST.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Twin Bros..........1 75  IWilsons................ 1 75
Gillett’s ..............1 75 
iNational...............1 75
Blacking.........................................30, 40,50@60
do  waterproof............................ 
1 50
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
do 
American............................ 
75
Barley......................................................
110
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
1 50
do  No. 2........................................ 
Bags, American A ................................. 
2000
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............  
8 00
Condensed Milk,  Swiss........................ 
7 50
Curry Combs 5® doz.............'................. 1 25©
Cream Tartar 0 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star............. 
@15-
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @16
Chimney Cleaners ¥   d o z...................   @50

 

 

 

do 

Chimneys No. 1............................. .;...  @38
No.  2.............................................@48
Cocoanlit,  Schepps’ 1 & 14 ft  do  . 
@2714
Extract Coffee,  v. c................................   90@95
F elix................................... 1 30@
Flour Sifters $  doz........... ...................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each..........................................1 25@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps..................
@30
......
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps..................  
Gum, Spruce............................................   30@35
Ink $  3 dozen  box.................................1 00@
Jelly in Pails......................................
@ 514
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz.............
Lye $  2  doz. cases...............................|  @i 55
Macaroni, Imported.............................  
@13
Domestic..........................................!.!!  @70
French Mustard,  8 oz ^ dozen. 
@75
Large Gothic...........  @l  35
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallon........................  @10 00>
Peas, Green Bush.............................
@1 75 
do  Split prepared.........................
@ 314
Powder,  Keg...................................................4 oo@
Sago  ........................................................ 
5@&
Shot, drop........................................................ l  60®
do  buck...................................................... 1 80@
Sage.........................................................  
@15
Tobacco Cutters each.........................  l  25@
Twine......................................................   18@25
5@6
Tapioca...................................  
Wicking No. 1 $  gross......... ..................  @40-
do 
@65
do  Argand........................................... 1 50©

14 Keg.....................................2 50®

No. 2  ..................................... 

-do 

do 

 

CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

Straight, 25 ft  boxes.......................... 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

do 
do 

STICK.
............................   @10 ys
............................. 
MIXED.

  @19
@13

Royal, 25 ft  pails.......................................  ©1014
Royal, 200 ft bbls......................  
10
Extra, 25 ft pails........................................... !lH4
Extra, 200 ft bbls............................................. .11
French Cream, 25 ft pails................................14
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases......................................... 14
Broken, 25 ft pails......................  
 
Broken, 200 ft  bbls.................................. 

1154
101^

 

 

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

 

Lemon Drops........................  
14
Sour Drops................................  
15
Peppermint  Drops......................................... 16
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 17
H M Chocolate  Drops................................... .20
Gum  D rops....................................................Iis-
Licorice Drops..................................!..!.*.!!!.20
A B  Licorice  Drops................... 
!” !” !l4
Lozenges, plain.............................................. j  g
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 17
Imperials..............................................  
!lfi
M ottoes.....................................:.:;.:::.::::i«
Cream  Bar........................................................15
Molasses Bar.....................................................14
Caramels........................................................ ” 20
Hand Made Creams........................................23
Plain  Creams...................................................20
Decorated Creams.............................. . . .”. . .23
String Rock............................................... ."! 16
Burnt Almonds.................................. **24
Wintergreen  Berries......................... 
16

 

Fancy—in  Bulk.

Lozenges, plain in pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in bbls...................................13
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..........■.................. 14
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................14
Gum Drops, in pails.......................................   8
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................................  y
Moss Drops, in  pails........................................11
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  9^
Sour Drops, in  pails......................................".13
Imperials, in  pails...........................................14
Imperials  in bbls.............................................13

FRUITS.

Oranges ^8 box............................
Oranges OO ^ box.....................
Oranges, Imperials, $1  box.......
Oranges, Valencia $   case........
Lemons,  choice..........................
Lemons, fancy............................
Bananas $  bunch.......................
Malaga Grapes,  keg...............
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl................
Figs,  layers  ^ ft.........................
Figs, fancy  do 
.........................
Figs, baskets 40 ft ^ ft...............
Dates, frails 
d o ........ ......
Dates, 14 do 
do  ...............
Dates, skin........ ".........................
Dates, %  skin.............................
ft........
Dates, Fard 10 ft box 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box ^ ft..........
Dates, Persian 50 ft box 
ft__

.5 00@6 50

@4 50 
.5 50®6 OO

12@16 
18@20 
@135 
© 6

654@  7

do 
do 

@ 7
@ 7

NUTS.

'PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft
Choice 
do
Fancy 
do
Choice White. Va.do
Fancy H P,.  Va  do

—  
—  
—   @  754
....  @ 85k
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft...........
....  18@19
Almonds, loaca,
d o ...........
....  16@17
Brazils,
do  ........... __   @8
Pecons,
do  ...........
....  10@14
Filberts, Barcelona
do  ...........
Filberts, Sicily
d o ...........
....  13@14
Walnuts, Chilli
do  ...........
Walnuts, Grenobles
d o ...........
....  14@15
Walnuts, California
do  . 
..
Cocoa Nuts, $   100
Hickory Nuts, large $   bu...........
Hickory  Nuts, small d o ........... ....... 

@4 50-
1 2f>

©1254

. 

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork,  old...............................$17 25.
Heavy  Mess  Pork,  new.............................  18 25-
Back  Pork, short cut, new.......................
Pig Pork, short cut, better than  m ess...  PSTfi
Family Clear Pork........... ...........................
Extra Clear Pork........................................  20 OO
Clear Back Pork, new.................................  19 0O
Boston Clear Pork.......................................
Standard Clear Pork, the best....................

do. 
do 
do. 

DRY  SALT MEATS— IN   BO XliS.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........
Half Cases.............
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases..........
Half Cases,.........
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases..............
HalfCases...............
Short Clears, heavy.................................
medium.............................
light....................................
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases..
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........

do. 
do. 

LARD.

Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs..................................... 

LARD IN   T IN  P A IL S .

201b Round Tins, 801b  racks.................. 
3 1b Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 1b Pails, 12 in a case................ ............ 
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case................ ...........  

8
854.

854-
9
8%
824

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  P L A IN .

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
lig h t...... 
Shoulders,  boneless...............................
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
Dried Beef,  Extra..................... ............ 

do. 

14
1454.
1454
854
12
13

B E EF IN  BA RR ELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........   10 75*
Plate Beef, extra quality..........................

CANNED B E E F.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 141b cans, 54 doz.

incase......................................................  18 00
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   2 85
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, 54 doz in case  18 00 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2  85 
do. 2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND SMOKED.

Pork Sausage................................................. 9
Ham  Sausage...................................................15;
Tongue  Sausage..............., ..........................  11
Liver Sausage...................................................  8
Frankfort  Sausage..........................................10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   8
Bologna,  ring.................... .............................  85k
Bologna, straight......................................... 
854
Bologna,  thick.................................................   854
Head  Cheese.....................................................8

P IG S ’  FE E T .

 

 

In half barrels............................. 
3 90-
In quarter barrels.........................................   2 10
In kits............................................................ .
T R IP E .
,..$3 75
In half barrels........................ 
2 00
In quarter barrels............  
In kits................................... .......................... 
95-
Prices named are lowest  at time of going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject 
to market fluctuations.

 

 

 

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Mail orders receive careful Attention.

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Lamps.

AS80RTED  CASK

Engraved  English  Glassware  No.  145.

NEW SHAPE-HANDLED

Vi doz Sets...........
% doz Vi gal Pitch 
% doz M gal Pitch.
3 doz Goblets__
1-6 doz 7 in Casser« 
1-6 doz 8 in Casser« 
1-6 doz 7 in cov’d b 
1-6 doz 8 in cov’d b 
% doz Sm Celeries 
% doz Molasses  cc
2 doz No. 3 Wines
3 doz 4 In Compoi
1 doz Oval  Salts..
2 doz Individual S
1 doz Shaker  Salt
Tierce $110, 

. Eiugd 36
3rs  .. .Eingd 36
irs...
igd 36
!Eilgd 36
>ies.. .E iigd 36
>les.. .Eiigd 36
owls. .Eingd 36
>wls. .Eiigd 36
.E iigd 36
.E iigd 36
.E iigd 10

tsV.V,
aits..

7 20
6 00
4 00
1  10
3 00
4 00
6 OO
7 50
3 00
3 50
70
40
17

3 60 
2 00 
1  00 
3 30 
50 
67 
1  00 
1 25 
75 
1 75 
40 
1  20 50 
34 
55
$19 si

Less Disconnt 10 per cent,

If you have not  our  Il­
lustrated  Price-List  send 
for it.

“ By Gee Crip ” Jennings came in Monday
0 carry a torch in the Logan procession.
Dr. J. B. Evans’ is accompanied on his D.,
x.  H.  «fe  M. trip  this  week  by  Mr.  O.  A. 
Jail.
J. C. Watson,  with  C. S. Yale  «fe  Bro., is 
if on a trip along the Lake Michigan shore, 
torth.
D. S. Haugh will spend next week  in  the 
touse, and will be glad to welcome  those of 
lis northern  trade  who  come  down  to  the 
air.
A commercial  traveler lying  off  (most  of 
hem  are)  heard  a  tramp in  his  back  yard 
ne  night, and  went  out to  interview  him. 
.he  first  thing  he  said  was,  of  course:
1 What line are you in?”  “ I  think it’s the 
lothes  line,”  said  the  entangled  intruder, 
["he  drummer  gave  him  a  large order, and 
losed  the  transaction.  The  tramp  didn’t 
tay to ask for time  nor  anything  off.  He 
vas off himself.
Referring  to  the  episode  related  on  the

were  restoring  him  to  consciousness,  the 
drummer  quietly dried  his  samples  by  the 
merchant’s stove;  and  when  the  merchant 
1 came  to,’  sold  him  a  bill of  goods  under 
threat of a repetition of the drubbing.  That 
drummer  was  no such  * tenderfoot ’  as  our 
contemporary makes him out.”

Mayor  Vaughan, of Council Bluffs, la., is 
working up a scheme for  a grand  gathering 
of  commercial  travelers  at  Council  Bluffs, 
September 25,  26 and 27.  The affair will be 
in effect a commercial carnival.  The object 
is  to  combine  both  business  and  pleasure. 
A  room, 200  feet  long  and  100  feet  wide, 
has  been  fitted  up  especially for  the  occa­
sion.  Five  thousand  dollars  have  been 
raised  to  defray  expenses.  One  hundred 
carriages  and  four  bands of  music  will  be 
employed.  Every morning  there  will  be  a 
grand parade, followed  by an  exposition  of 
the  travelers’  samples. 
It  is  proposed  to 
hold a conversational  tournament, at  which 
prizes will be given to the traveler  who  ex­
cels  in  fluency  and  felicity  of  expression. 
Medals will also be bestowed  upon the  man 
who tells the toughest  yam—open to every­
one  but  John  McIntyre—the  fattest  man, 
the  leanest, the  homeliest,  the  most  impu­
dent,  the  handsomest  and  most  modest. 
The  last  two  prizes will, of  course, fall  to 
Grand  Rapids  men.  But  if  the  travelers 
assemble at Council  Bluffs in anything  like 
a fair proportion  to  their number, it is diffi­
cult to see how that city can  find  accommo­
dations  for  them,  unless  it  is  understood 
that  sample  tranks  are  to  be  utilized  as 
lodging houses. 
If this little matter can  be 
satisfactorily  arranged,  the  carnival  will 
doubtless  prove  a  grand  success.  A  truly 
magnificent  spectacle  will  be  that  mighty 
host of travelers, radiant  in gorgeous  attire 
and  sparkling  with  diamonds, while  rising 
from  them,  high  and  far  away,  will  go  a 
sound  of  many voices to which  the mighty 
war  of  Niagara  will  be  no  more  than the 
impotent squeak of a penny trumpet.

Bangor  dealers  are  shipping  potatoes  to 

Chicago in car lots.

ASSORTMENT  NO. 09.

1 doz  very  large  Pine  Lamps  that 
will retail  at $1.50 each  which we can 
sell complete with  7  INCH  SUN  IL­
LUMINATORS  at  $ 0 , 5 0   per 
doz.

DECORAT’D base lamp

ASSORTMENT  NO.  29.

Complete  with  7 in.  Sun Illuminator.

2 Bronze Base Lamps____:............... @65 
65 
 
........................      
70 
“ 
............................79 
 
84 

“ 
4 Decorated 

“ 
“ 
**  “ 

1 30
1 30
1 40
1  58
3 36
8 94

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

Extra  Selects.......................................
Selects...................................................
Standards.......................... ...................

............ 38
..........33
........... 25

FRESH  FISH.

Codfish ...................................................
Haddock...............................................
Smelts....................................................
Mackinaw Trout..................................
Mackerel...............................................
Whiteflsh..............................................
Smoked Whiteflsh and Trout.............
Smoked Sturgeon.................................

.........  8
.........  5
.........7
.........15
.........10
........ 10

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

HIDES.

Green............................................... $  ib  @7
Part  cured............................................
8  @  8%
Full cured..............................................
8%@  8M
Dry hides and kips...............................
8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured.................. 10  @12
Deacon skins............................^ piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins  piece. 10  @20
Fall pelts............................................... 30  @50
Winter  pelts....................................... 1  00  @1  50
Fine washed $  ft..................................
24@  26
Coarse washed...................................... 18  ‘@20
Unwashed.............................................. 2-3
Tallow.....................................................

SHEEP PELTS.

WOOL.

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides................................. 6%©  8
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.................
8  @ 9
Dressed Hogs........................................
@  8
Mutton,  carcasses...............................
6%@  7
Veal........................................................
9%©10
Fowls......................................................
15@16
Pork Sausage........................................ .10  @10%
Bologna..................................................
@10

The  Gripsack Brigade.

W. H. Down will  spend  “ fair  week ”  in 
the city, and will be  pleased to welcome his 
customers  at  Spring  «&  Company’s  whole­
sale store.

W. W. Averill, of Coopersville, has  taken 
the  position  of  traveling  collector  for  the 
Harrison  Wagon  Works.  He is  now  on  a 
trip through Illinois.'

Dr. J. B. Evans is mourning the loss  of  a 
scarf pin sent by the Magic Yeast Co., which 
was  extracted  from  the letter  by  Billing 
Clerk McBrien and by him presented to  his 
best girl.

Graham  Roys  has  returned  from  a  two 
months’  tour  through  Ohio  and  Indiana. 
He  will  attend  the fair  at  Kalamazoo  this 
week and the Grand Rapids fair next  week, 
after which he will start south  again.

Every member of Post A,  and  every trav­
eler who is interested  in  the success  of  the 
organization,  should  attend 
the  regular 
monthly meeting at Sweet’s  Hotel Saturday 
evening,  September  27,  as  business  of  im­
portance is to come up for action.

A  leading representative of  the  traveling 
fraternity writes The  Tradesman  as  fol­
lows:  “Have you any  knowledge  of  Max 
Mills  being a candidate for any office?  The 
reason I ask is that he seems to be paying  a 
great  deal of attention to the mechanics, but 
seems to show a preferancefor Carpenters.”
Nelson Bros. <&  Co.’s three travelers start 
out on Friday with three trunks apiece.  Ed. 
P. Andrew  goes  direct  to  Milwaukee, and 
will spend some  time  among the Wisconsin 
trade.  N.  S.  McConnell  opens  up  at  Fort 
Wayne, and will attend to the wants  of  the 
Indiana trade.  Jas. Nelson will  go  to  Bay 
City, and make a tour of Saginaw  Valley.

As  there  was  not  a quorum of members 
present, no meeting of Post A was  held last 
Saturday evening.  This was a severe disap­
pointment to Vice-President Mills,  who had 
spent all his spare time for the previous fort­
night posting himself on parliamentary prac­
tices, and was prepared to surprise his friends 
by the aptitude with which he  could  handle 
gatherings of  that  character.

Package at cost.

Net.

$15 57

Package at cost, 

net 

LANTERNS!

Per doz.

4

No. 1 Burner Lift Wire Tubular........................8 50
Same, with  Guards.............................................. 8 75
Buckeye, Double  globes................................   .6 00
Tilting Tubular..,................................................ 7 00
Every Style of Lantern 
carried 
in  Stock.  We
make  a  Specialy  of Lan­
terns  and  Lamps 
for
Lighting  Mills,  Etc.
W ill  Send  Cuts  of  Assortment  on 

Application.

THE  GREAT “ S U N ”  LAMP.

RETAIL  PRICES.

“ 

Fount, brass, each............................................3 00
nickel.................................................. 3 50
Table Lamps, with shade,  brass................... 3 50
nickel................ 4 00

“ 

“ 

MASON’S  PORCELAIN  CAP

FRUIT  JARS.

Quart—$13 per gross.
1-2 Gallon—$16 per gross.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.

ANCHOR  BRAND.

No  Charge for Boxes,  6 doz. in Box.

Per Box.
No. 0 Sun Bulb C.  T.......................................2 00
No. 1 
......................................... 2 20
No. 2 
......................................... 3 20

“ 
“ 

The following  chimneys  are  manufactured 
expressly for us,  are  superior in  quality and 
but a trifle higher in  cost  than  the  chimneys 
usually sold by  others.  Each  chimney  is  la­
beled with our brand and name.
FIRST  QUALITY.

Per box.
No. 0 Sun Bulb C. T.........................................2 35
No. 1 
.......................................... 2  50
No. 2 
.......................................... 3  50
 
No. 0  “  Hinge  “ 
2 45
...................................2 60
No. 1  •* 
“ 
No. 2  “ 
“ 
...................................3 60

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

No charge for box.

THE PERFECTION

“ 

German Student, 7 in shade.........................3 75
.........................5 50

“ 
GLASS STANDARD

10 

“ 

HAND  LAMPS.

Assortment  No.  11.

% doz A Lamps  and  Burners 
Vi  “  B
C 
A
C 
D 
Engd Lamps &
A 
B
Hand.  “

»*
“
“

fancy.

footed

.2 16 
.2 48 
.2  70 
.2 16 
.2 70 
.3 38 
.4 75 
.2 16 
.3 38 
.2 25

S)t\>  (Boobs.

Spring &  Company quote as louuw» 

W ID E   BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4 
Androscoggin, 8-4
Pepperell,  7-4-----
Pepperell,  8-4-----
Pepperell,  9-4......

I Pepperell, 10-4........25
.23 
.21  Pepperell, 11-4........27%
.16% Pequot,  7-4.............18
.20  Pequot,  8-4.............21
.22% ¡Pequot,  9-4.............24
CHECKS.

Caledonia, XX, oz. 
Caledonia,  X, oz..
Economy, oz........
Park Mills, No. 50. 
Park Mills, No. 60. 
Park Mills, No. 70. 
Park Mills, No. 80.

Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron.............10%
Otis  Furniture......10%
York, 1  oz.............. 10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABTTRG,

Alabama brown../.  7  I Alabama  plaid.......8
Jewell briwn..........9% I Augusta plaid..........  8
Kentucky brown.. 10%¡Toledoplaid...........   7%
Lewiston  brown...  9% Manchester plaid..  7
Lane brown...........   9% New Tenn. plaid...11
Louisiana  plaid 

8  ¡Utilityplaid...........   6%

BLEACHED  COTTON8.

Avondale,  36..........
Art cambrics, 36... 
Androscoggin, 4-4.. 
Androscoggin, 5-4..
Ballou, 4-4...............
Ballou, 5-4...............
Boott, 0 . 4-4...........
Boott,  E. 5-5...........
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......
Boott, R. 3-4...........
Blackstone, AA 4-4. 
Chapman, X, 4-4....
Conway,  4-4...........
Cabot, 4-4................
Cabot, 7-8................
Canoe,  3-4........—
Domestic,  36...—  
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.
Davol, 4-4...............
Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 
Fruit of  the Loom, 
cambric,  4-4......
Cold Medal, 4-4..
Cold Medal, 7-8.......
Cilded Age.............

8%|Greene, G. 4-4........
11% Hill, 4-4....................
8% Hill, 7-8....................
12% Hope,  4-4................
7%¡King  Phillip  cam-
6 
brie, 4-4.......  .....
8% Lin wood,  4-4........
7  Lonsdale,  4-4........
9% Lonsdale  cambric 
5% Langdon, GB, 4-4..
7% Langdon, 45..........
6% Masonville,  4-4__
7% Maxwell. 4-4..........
7% New York Mill, 4-4 
6% New Jersey,  4-4...
4  Pocasset,  P. M. C. 
7% Pride of the West.
9  Pocahontas,  4-4...
9% Slaterville, 7-8.......
9  Victoria, AA__ _
8%! W oodbury, 4-4.......
,  Whitinsville,  4-4.. 
12  W hitins ville, 7-8...
7  W amsutta, 4-4.......
6% Williamsville, 36.. 
8%

5%8%
7%
7%
11%9
.  «%
11%.  9% 
14
.  9% 
.10%  
10%  
,  8 
■  7% 
.12%  
.  8%  
.  6 %  
.  9 
.  5% 
.  7% 
.  6%  
. 10%  
.10%

S IL E S IA S .

Crown.....................17 
No.  10.....................12%
Coin........................10
Anchor....................15
Centennial.............
Blackburn........ . 
8
Davol...................... A4
London...................12%
Paconia................. 12
Red  Cross..............10
Social  Imperial— 16

|Masonville TS.........  8
Mason ville  8 ..........10%
Lonsdale................ 9%
Lonsdale A .............16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J .................
Victory D ...............
Victory .K..............   2%
Phoenix A .............. 19%
Phoenix  B .............   10%
Phoenix X X ...........5

Albion, solid............5%
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........5%
Aden’s  fancy.......... 5%
Allen’s pink............ 6%
Allen’s purple.........6%
American, fancy— 5% 
Arnold fancy— — 6
Berlin solid............... 5%
Cocheco fancy....... 6
Cocheco robes...... .7
Conestoga fancy.... 6
Eddystone............6
Eagle fancy............5
Camer pink............7

Gloucester...............6
Gloucestermourn’g . 6
Hamilton  fancy__ 6
Hartel fancy........... 6
Merrimac D.............6
Manchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........6%
Pacific  robes........... 6
Richmond................ 6
Steel River.............. 5%
Simpson’s ................ 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues..8

F IN E  BROW N COTTONS.

eton A, 4-4—  
t  M,4-4........
in  F, 4-4..........
inental C, 4-3.. 
inental D, 40 in 
stoga W, 4-4... 
stoga  D, 7-8... 
stoga G, 30-in.
:bt  X, 34........
■ht Y, 7-8..........
;ht Z, 4-4..........
h t Star, 4-4—  
■ht Star, 40-in.. 
rpnse EE, 36.. 
t Falls E, 4-4...
iers’ A, 4-4.......
m  Orchard, 1-4

7%

Indian Orchard, 40.  8% 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........16%
Lyman B, 40-in....... 10%
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  5%
Nashua  E, 40-in___ 9
Nashua  R, 4-4........  7
Nashua 0,7-8..........  7%
Newmarket N.  ___ 7%
PepperellE, 39-in..  7%
Pepperell  R, 4-4__   7
Pepperell  O, 7-8....  6%
Pepperell  N, 3-4___ 6%
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac R...............  7
Saranac  E...............  9

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

Am oskeag.............  8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles....................10%
B ates.........................7%
Berkshire.............   6%
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, Py 7% 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8
Gloucester, 
standard.............  7%
Plunket.................... 7%
Lancaster...............  8%
LangdaJc ..............  .  73»

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styl 9% 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............12%
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........ 12%
Slaterville, 
dress
I  styles....................  9
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
I White Mfg Co, fane  8 
I White  Manf’g  Co,
(Gordon............. 
iGreylock, 
i  s ty le s ............... 12%

Eariston.................9%

dress 

8

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 7-4 .21 Pepperell.  104... ..27%
Androscoggin, 8-4 .23 Pepperell,  114... ..32%
Pepperell,  7-4— .20 Pequot,  74.......... ..21
Pepperell,  8-4 — .22%Pequot,  84.......... ..24
Pepperell,  9-4__ .25 Pequot,  94.......... ..27%

HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.

Lawrence  Y, 30.. ..  7

•  7% Lawrence XX, 4-4 ..  8%
Atlantic  A ,44...
Atlantic  H, 44...
.  6%Lawrence LL, 44. ..  5%
Atlantic  D, 44...
Atlantic P, 4-4— .  5% Newmarket N __ ..  7%
.  5% Mystic River, 4-4. ..  6
Atlantic LL, 44..
7 V5 Pequot A, 44....... ..  8
Adriatic, 36..........
.  6%Piedmont,  36....... ..  7
Augusta, 4-4........
•  7% Stark A A, 44....... • •  7/4
Boott M, 4-4........
.  7%Tremont CC, 4-4.
..  5%
Boott FF, 4-4.......
.  6%Utica,  44............. ..  9
Graniteville, 44..
.  7%Wachusett,  44... ..  7%
Indian  Head, 4-4.
Indiana Head 45-in, 12% Wachusett, 30-in ..  6%

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

TICKINGS.
.13% Falls, XXXX....... ..18%
Amoskeag,  ACA.
Amoskeag  “ 4-4..19 Falls, XXX.......... ..15%
Amoskeag,  A __ 13 Falls,  BB............. -.11%
Amoskeag,  B __ .12 Falls,  BBC, 36.... ..19%
Amoskeag,  C__ 11 Falls,  awning__ ..19
Amoskeag,  D__ .10%Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  E __ .10 Hamilton.  D __ ..  9%
.  9^41 Hamilton,  H __ ..  9%
Amoskeag, F .......
.17 Hamilton  tancy ..10
Premium  A, 44..
.16 Methuen AA....... ..13%
Premium  B ........
.16 Methuen ASA...
..18
Extra 44...............
Extra 7-8............... . .14% ()mega A, 7-8__ ..11
.15 Omega A, 44 — ..13
Gold Medal 44....
..14
.12%Omega ACA, 7-8.
CCA 7-8................
CT4-4..............
..16
.14 Omega ACA, 44.
.14 Omega SE, 7-8__ ..24
RC 7-8....................
■ BF 7-8.................... .16 Omega SE, 44__ . .27
A F44.................... ..19 Omega M. 7-8  ... ..22
Cordis AAA, 32... ..14 Omega M, 44....... ..25
Cordis ACA, 32... ..15 Shetucket SS&SSW 11%
Cordis No. 1,32... ..15
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis No. 2........ ..14 Shetucket,  SFS.
..12
..  7
Cordis  No. 3........ ..13 Stockbridge  A..
Cordis No. 4...... ..11%Stockbridge frncy.  8
fi Km pire  ..........
Garner
5 Washington...... ..  4M
Hookset...........
..  5
.  5 Edwards..........
Red Cross........
S. S. & Sons......
.  5
Forest Grove.....
G R A IN   BAGS.
Old  Ironsides...
American  A.....
.23% ¡Wheatland......
Stark A............
DENIM S.
Boston............ ..  7%|Otis  CC...........
Everett blue..... -.13% Warren  AXA...
Everett brown... .]3%]Warren  BB.....
Otis  AXA........ .. 12% I Warren CC......
Otis BB............ ,.ll%|York  fancy.....
Manville........... ..  6 S. S. & Sons......
Masgnville....... ..  6 Garner...........
Red  Cross........ ..  7% ¡Thistle Mills.....
Berlin............. ..  7% Rose..............
Garner............ ..  7%
Brooks............
50 Eagle  and  Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. F .... .55 Mills ball sewing.30
J. & P.  Coats..... . .55 Greeh  &  Daniels ..25
Willimantic 6 cord. 55 Merricks........
..40
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 Stafford..........
..35
..30
Hall & Manning.
Charleston ball sew
Ingthread...... ..30 Holyoke..........
..25
Armory........... ..  7% Kearsage...........
Androscoggin sat..  8%Naumkeagsatteen.
Canoe River........ ..  6 Pepperell  bleached  8%
Clarendon........... ..  6%Pepperell sat__ ...  9%
Hallowell  Imp... ..  6%Rockport...........
Ind. Orch. Imp... ..  7 Lawrence sat__ ..  8%
Laconia ............... ..  7%Conegosat..........

..10%
..12%
..11%
. .10%
. .15
.. 6
..  6

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

SPO O L COTTON.

CORSET JE A N S .

..  7
..  7

WTGANS.

..  8

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted
In this column at the rate of 25 cents per week,
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each
additional word. Advance payment.
TT'OR  SALE—In Owosso,  brick  store and  a
JD 
small  stock of  dry  goods.  Terms easy.
Inquire of A. T. Thomas, Öwosso, Mich.
53
Y17ANTED—Two traveling salesmen to han-
V V  die a staple line on commission.  Address
50tf
XXX, care The Tradesman.
TT7 ANTED—Position as  clerk,  book-keeper
or  traveling  salesman  for  a rep u table
vv 
business house. HaVe one  and  a  half year’s
experience  in  genera,
trader  Address  W.  T.
50tf
Adkins, St. Johns, Mich.
TT'OR SALE—I  have a fine new store building
J?  dwelling house and 40 business  and dwel-
ling lots in Elmira for sale on easy  terms.  D.
C, Underwood.

IpOR EXCHANGE—I have 80 acres  of choice 

*  hard wood land lying within  three  and a 
half miles of Tustin, six acres cleared and 150,- 
000 of cork  pine  standing  on  same,  which  I 
will exchange for city lobs in Grand  Rapids or 
sell on reasonable terms.  D.  C. Underwood.

P E R K I N S  
H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

----- DEALERS  IN-----

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

THE  “GOOD  BXTOUGXX”  FAMILY

CLOSED.

Oil <& Gasoline Can.

OPEN.

EVERY LIVE  DEALER  SHOULD  SELL  THEM.

This is the Most Practical Family Can ever Offered to the Trade.

Cant It EralM for Canton, CtalMss, Comfort

Lamps are filled direct by the Pump without lifting the Can; the Discharge  tube adjusting 

to suit the height of  any lamp.

No dropping oil on the floor or table.  No faucet to leak or get knocked open to waste con­
tents or cause explosions.  In getting can refilled, no parts to be left at home to drain oil over 
floor or become Injured.  No Corks to lose—Closes itself  perfectly  air tight—No Leakage—No 
Evaporation.

The dealer In selling this can is  enabled to make a good profit, and In a measure  avoid the 
annoyance  of  the  small can, while you  guarantee  your  customer  absolute  safety  and  the 
greatest possible convenience.

MANUFACTURED BY

WITTEIE31.3D  LÆEC3-.  C O ,

WARREN,  OHIO.

FOR  SALE  TO  THE  TRADE  BY

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  GRAND  RAPIDS. 
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., 
GEO.  C.  WETHERBEE  «fe  CO.,  DETROIT.

“

Send,  for Circulars  cto  Frice-List.

Purely Personal.

W. T. Lamoreaux  has  gone to Detroit  on 

business.

T.  B.  Crawford,  of  the  Gilbert  Starch 
Works, is in the city for a week, pushing the 
goods of his house.

Geo. L. Medes, book-keeper  for  Jennings 
«fe Smith, has been spending a few days with 
his parents at Coral.

Vernor J. Jenks, clerk for  M. M. Elder & 
Co., general dealers at Spencer  Creek,  is  in 
the  city  for  a  few  days,  the  guest of his 
brother-in-law, D. C. Underwood,

W.  N.  Fuller,  who  has  been connected 
with the engraving  business  since  its  com­
mencement in Grand Rapids, has  concluded 
that he can better serve the  interests  of  his 
patrons by establishing a  business  for  him­
self, and has accordingly opened  an office in 
conjunction with the Eaton,  Lyon  «fe  Allen 
Printing Co.  Mr. Fuller is  an  experienced 
and competent engraver, and will undoubted­
ly receive the lion’s share of  the  patronage.

Didn’t Want His Whisky.

John McIntyre recently  had  a  gathering 
of commercial travelers at his  home  out  in 
Walker  township.  During  the  entertain­
ment,  he called  two  or  three  of  the  boys 
aside and  whispered  to  them;  “Boys,  if 
you will go down cellar with me, I will give 
you a drink of the  best  whisky  you  ever 
saw.  It is  sour-mash  whisky,  hand-made 
whisky, copper,bottomed whisky,  and  will 
electrify  your  whole  system. 
is  old 
whisky, too.  Why, to my certain knowledge 
that whisky  has  been  in  my  possession 
twenty-one years, and 1 don’t know how old 
it was when I got it.

“I don’t want any of  that whisky,”  said 

It 

Hank Fairchild.

“Why not?” asked McIntyre.
“Because,”  said  Fairchild,  “any  whisky 
you have had in your possession  for twenty- 
one years without  drinking  isn’t  worth  a 
d—n!”

The  Sentiment of a Thinking  Dealer.
St. Ignace, Sept. 11,1884.

Editor “Michigan Tradesman.”  '

Dear  Sib—I  like  the  weekly  visits  of 
The Tradesman,  and  admire  your  treat­
ment of those dealers who sell  anything  for 
less than it can be bought  and  paid  for  at 
wholesale, whether it be  advertising  space, 
sugar, or anything else.  1  think  the  stand 
you have taken  on  these  subjects  is  right. 
Your editorial on “prompt paying” is just the 
thing, but one great hindrance  to  that  very 
desirable end is our retail customers’ failure 
to pay us. 
I am seriously thinking  of  sell­
ing only for cash, or its equivalent, and buy­
ing for cash on the arrival of  goods  accord­
ing to agreement; and, above  all,  only  buy 
what I want, notwithstanding a  farm,  sew­
ing machine, gold watches, etc.  are  thrown 
in as an  inducement  to  buy  largely.  The 
quality most needed by dealers of  the  pres 
ent time is grit  enough  o  say  NO.  With 
kind regards, 

Geo. Cooke.

__ 

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

Hiehtcock  &  Putnam,  general  dealers, 

Northport:  “Well worth any man’s 8.”
A. L. Vandercook,Mason: “The Trades­
man  is the best paper for businessmen that j 
I  have ever had  the pleasure of  reading.”
C.  Strobe,  general  dealer,  Eerrysburg: 
“Can’t do business  without  it   The  paper 
should  be  in  every  business  office.  Wish 
you  all  the success  possible.”

Movements  of the Michigan  Trade.

Not a vacant store in Marshall.
Alma is to have  a  cheese  factory.
J. S. Daniels has re-opened a meat market 

at LowelL

rushing business.

The Hillsdale canning factory  is  doing  a 

A  big box factory is  to  be  established  at 

Bay City by R. J. Briscoe.

Reid & McCracken, marble  dealers,  have 

removed from Adrian to  Detroit.

The Ohio paper mill at Niles is putting  in 
a new  water  wheel  and  making  other  re­
pairs.

The  Kalamazoo  Canning  Co.  is  putting | 
cans  of  com  and  tomatoes 

up  10,000 
daily.

Damon Stewart, dealer in woolen goods at | 
Flint,  has  failed.  Wm. A.  Burr  is  the  as­
signee.

L. C.  Madison,  general  dealer  at Boyne 
Falls, has removed his stock and business to 
East Jordan.

H. C. Haskins, the Clayton produce dealer, 
has 37,000 apple barrels,  which  he  will  fill 
during the season.

C. A. Warren’s general store at Orouo was 
burned on the  10th.  Loss about 89,000, in­
surance one-half.

¿a  Goodrich & Guinan, the  Ann  Arbor  hat­
ters, make a  showing  of  82,000  liabilities, 
and 84,500  assets.

It is said that a barrel  factory  will be put 
into one of the U pton shops  at Battle Creek 
as soon as the shop is vacated.

Ringman & Hazard is the  name of  a  new 
firm who will open a jewelry store  and  gen­
eral jobbing establishment  in Adrian.

.McCarthy &  Hull,  of  Yermontville,  met 
with very heavy loss by the burning of their 
large tobacco factory in Ashville, N. C.

,  Dealers purchasing supplies of  field  seeds 
should consult the Grand Rapids  Seed  Co.’s 
quotations, in  another  part  of  this  week’s 
paper.

J. J. Granger and  P.  Oberson  have  pur­
chased the boot and shoe stock  of  Crowner 
Hunter, at Saranac, and will continue the 
b&giness.  The new firm  will  be  known  as 
Granger & Oberson.
A.  Preacher  Who  Was  “Clean  Off”

Overcoat  Buttons.

An evangelist from the  far  East  made  a 
tour to Texas  recently  for  the  purpose  of 
saving  some  of  the  desperate  denizens of 
the Lone Star State.  He  opened  his  first 
meeting in what is known in the  State  as  a 
“tough town.”  About  thirty  hard-looking 
male citizens comprised the audience.  After 
the good  man  had  discoursed  a  little  and 
sung  several  hymns,  he  requested  that  a 
collection be taken up to carry  him  further 
into  the  State.  A  tall  and  fierce-looking 
Texan, armed to the nape of his  neck,  pas­
sed the sombrero around, with the significant 
remark:

“Guv liberal, boys:  you’ve seen the show, 

and we ain’t the men to beat any showman.

The result was that every man contributed 
something, and when the hat was  passed  to 
the evangelist he examined the contents, and 
then remarked:

“I find in this hat four dollars, fifteen cents, 

and two overcoat buttons.”

“That  ain’t  a  square  deal,”  yelled  the 
fierce man who had taken up the  collection, 
as he mounted the  chair. 
“The  man  who 
put  them  buttons  in  the  hat  will  redeem 
them at fifty  cents  a  piece,  or  there’ll  be
h-----1 here in the toss of a cent.”

“Make no disturbance, my  friend,” plead 
ed the evangelist, holding the supposed  but­
tons in full view.  “I  will----- ”

A shout and considerable laughter  cut  off 
the evangelist’s remark,  and  the  tall  man, 
without dismounting from the chair said: 

“Mr. preacher man, you’r clean off on over 
coat buttons.  Them ain’t no buttons,  them 
are  chips,  good  for  fifty  cents’  worth  of 
licker in any  gin-mill  this  side  of  the Rio 
Grande.  They’ll also get you  cooked  grub, 
stranger, ef yer appetite needs  it.”

The explanation was satisfactory,  and the 

meeting closed.” -

S. J. Wing and J. M. Neasmith, of  Vicks­
burg, and J.  C.  McCausey,  cashier  of  the 
Union City National  Bank,  have opened a 
bank under the State law, at Vicksburg with 
$30,000 capital.

School  Books
School  Stationery

Wliolesale,

[,  LYON  4  ALLEN,

23  and  34  Canal  Street,

The  only  general  jobbing  house  in 
Michigan  in  our  line.  Send  for cata­
logues and terms.

OYSTERS!

ON  D E C K —1884.

WM.  L.  ELLIS  &  CO.’S

B B . A X D

Baltimore  Oysters!

Fat  and  full  count.  Special  express  and 
express rates to all points  in  Michigan, either 
from Baltimore or Chicago house.  Our oysters 
are  opened  and  canned  fresh  from the  well- 
known  Nanticoke  beds.  No  slack  filled  or 
fresh water snaps sent out.  Dealers  can have 
their  orders  filled  promptly by addressing B. 
F.  EMERY.  Agent,  Grand  Rapids(at  home 
every Saturday).

i s   fire  Works

w
Manufacturers of All Kinds of

WIRE WORK 1

92  MONROE  STREET.

WHOLESALE

21  PEARL,  STREET,

L. S. I I I T - i I j i  cte OO,
FXSHX2TC  TACSLS
GRAND  R A P ID S 
MICH. 
Du  PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed

The lowest market prices  for Sport­

-  
AGENTS FOR

PLEASANT TO TAKE, ACTS MILDLY, CURES QUICKLY
DDSHAM’8  SDKS  CURB  TOR  IEVEB  It ACUB.
PQne Dose taken during the  Chill, 
arrests  the  disease in 20 minutes.
NEVES KNOWN TO PAIL.  Money re- 
tumed if it does not cure.  Price, 
50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre­
paid for 60 cts.  Address, Western 
Medicine Co.,Grand Rapids, Mich.

« tie.  Act directly on the Liver, “tone 

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
Purely  Vegetable; contain  no  calomel,  mineral
up" the system,  aid digestion  and 
purify the blood.  POSITIVELY CUBX 
purify the blood.  POSITIVELY CVBX
kiABACBB ¿NS CONSTIPATION.  In­
valuable for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent free 
on receipt of price, 35  cts.  Sample 
• package free.  Western  Medicine 
’ Company., Grand Rapids, Mich.
i
!
I
43 and 45 Kent Street.

STEAM LAUNDRY

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

¡MT7SXEGOIT  BUSINESS  DIHECTORU.

S. S. MORRIS £  6R0.
Jobbers  of  P rovision s,

PACKERS

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Street-

W. D .  CABBY & CO.

Successóre  to  Carey  &  Lander,

C om m ission M erchants

—AND  J0BBEBS  OF—

F r u i t f l   a n d   P r o d u c e .

ORDERS  PROMPTLY  FILLED.  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

Kline’s  Patent  Candler  and Egg Carrier.

Til©  Best  on tlie Mar3s.et,

Can be made any Size, Round or Square, with any Capacity.  State  Territory 
for Sale by G.  C. SAYLES, Sole  Agent  for  the  United  States, P. O. Box  1973, 
Muskegon, Mich.

ANDREW  WIERENGO,

"Wli olesale

G R O C E R ,

WIERENGO  NEW  BLOCK

Pine Street

Muskegon, Mich.

TO F R U I T   G R O W E R S
MUSKEGON 

BASKET  FACTORY!

Is  now  in full  operation  manufacturing  all 

kinds  of

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed.

FRUIT  PACKAGES, ETC.
S c ,
OlR.OTTTT 
Bitter, Etss, Gtese, Fruit Grain, Hay, Bast Pori, M n
MUSKEGON  NOVELTY  IRON  WORKS
w illiams’  Patent  Novelt  Pipe  Wrench

Consignments  Solicited.

Manufacturers  of  the

MUSKEGON, MICH.

Best,  Strongest  and  Most  Durable  Made.

We also build Mill and Marine Engines and Boilers  and  c0^ u^ 2 , ^ eS e^ e Chine 

Shop, Blacksmith,  Foundry and Boiler  Shop  Business. 

361  Western  Avenue.

Choice Butter a Specially!

BANANAS, LEMONS, CALIFORNIA FRUITS 

EGGS,  CHEESE,  VEGETABLES,  APPLES. 
Carefid  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.

C L A R K ,   J E W E L L   &   G O .,

WHOLESALE

Groceries  and  Provisions,

M

X

1

SHIELDS-

■

IMPORTERS
Wholesale  Grocers,

. A - i s r x x

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

New Japans.

We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices  of  the  new  crop- 
of 1884-5 Japan Teas, including all  grades  of  Pan  Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured, and 
embracing  about  1,200  chests  in  all,  which we  have  recently  received  per  the  Pacific 
Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio de Janeiro.  These  Teas  are  positively  our  own im­
portation,  and  we  believe  we  are  safe  in  saying  that  they  are  the  first  Teas  ever  im­
ported  to  this  market  direct  from  Japan.

They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will  da 

well to send for samples and  quotations  before  buying  new  Teas.

Soaps.

Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this market  for  the  well- 
known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ  BROS.  &  CO., Buffalo, N. Y.  Below we  mention 

few of their best-known brands:

Towel, 
Shamrock, 

Acme, 
Palma, 
White Cotton Oil,  Gem, 
Blue Danube, 
Master, etc.

Mottled German, 

Napkin,
Nickel,
Stearine,
Lautz Soap,

Best American, 
White Marseilles. 
Boss,
Savon  Republique,

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver them  in  10 
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight  prepaid.  Please send for price­
lists and  samples.  See quotations on Grocery Page.

Starch.

We are also the Sole Agents here for the NIAGARA  STARCH  WORKS’  Starch,  of 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  which  we  sell  at  the  manufacturers’  prices,  freights  prepaid  on  all 
shipments  of  10  box  lots  and  upwards  to  all  railroad  points  in  Michigan.  Send  for 
price lists.  See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

Value  Cigars.

We have received the  agency for the new Value  Cigar, the  best  five  cent  on  earth,, 
and are prepared to furnish every merchant who buys the  same  with  presents  for  every 
purchaser of a single cigar, consisting of  elegant Seth  Thomas  clocks,  fine  meerschaum. 
and briar pipes, gold and silver plated tobacco  and  match  boxes, etc., etc.  These  cigars- 
we furnish to the trade at 835 at 1,000, in lots of 1,000.  Express  prepaid  on  all  mail  or­
ders.  Send in your orders for a trial lot of 1,000.

Fancy Groceries.

We carry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every­
thing in the Fancy Grocery department,  and are  now  considered headquarters in this line. 
Please send for Circulars and Price-lists relative to this department.  Parties desiring new 
stocks will find it to their decided advantage to come and see us before purchasing.
Crosse & Blackwell’s English Pickles.
Lea & Perrins’ English  Sauce.
Holford’s 
Piccadilly
Colman’s 
James Epps’ 
Choice Brands of French Peas.

Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing.
Durkee & Co.’s  “ 
A. Lusk & Co,’s California .Peaches.

“  Mustand.
“  Breakfast  Cocoa.

“ 

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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  Green  Gages.
“  Apricots.
Egg Plums.
“ 
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Pears.
“  Quinces.
“  Grapes.

Cherries.

China Preserved Ginger, all size jars, 
Knowles & Anderson’s Jams and Jellies.

. 

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“  Mushroons.

Italian Macarroni, 1 lb pkg.

“  Vermicella.

Queen Olives, 16 oz- and 27 oz. bottles. 
French Capers,  genuine  imported  in  bottle.
Choicest Salad Oil, Antonini& Co., Leghorn. 

We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co. s Desicated and Cooked! 
All

Oat Meal, Hominy, Wheat, Beans and Peas.  Send us a trial  order  for  these  goods 
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  KO 
Orders by Mail and Express  promptly ‘•'  GRAND  RAPIDS, 
tended to. 

CHEMICALS.

1 U A " P  P

83,85 u d  87  PEARL  STREET and 114,110,118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET,

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-  MICHIGAN.

